AMD Radeon HD 6670A vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6670A and NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

AMD Radeon HD 6670A

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6670A

2.2x more texture fill rate: 14.4 GTexel / s vs 6.48 GTexel / s
10x more pipelines: 480 vs 48
3.7x better floating-point performance: 576.0 gflops vs 155.52 gflops
2.2x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Texture fill rate	14.4 GTexel / s vs 6.48 GTexel / s
Pipelines	480 vs 48
Floating-point performance	576.0 gflops vs 155.52 gflops
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI

Around 35% higher core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 600 MHz
Around 55% lower typical power consumption: 29 Watt vs 45 Watt

Core clock speed	810 MHz vs 600 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt vs 45 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6670A	NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Turks	GF119
Launch date	19 April 2011	13 April 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	810 MHz
Floating-point performance	576.0 gflops	155.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	480	48
Texture fill rate	14.4 GTexel / s	6.48 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt	29 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	292 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCI
Length		168 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	64.0 GB / s	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3