AMD Radeon HD 6750M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6750M Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 6750M Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6750M Mac Edition

2.2x more texture fill rate: 14.35 GTexel / s vs 6.5 billion / sec
10x more pipelines: 480 vs 48
3.7x better floating-point performance: 574.1 gflops vs 155.52 gflops
3.5x more memory clock speed: 3176 MHz vs 900 MHz (DDR3)

Texture fill rate	14.35 GTexel / s vs 6.5 billion / sec
Pipelines	480 vs 48
Floating-point performance	574.1 gflops vs 155.52 gflops
Memory clock speed	3176 MHz vs 900 MHz (DDR3)

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

2.7x more core clock speed: 1620 MHz vs 598 MHz
Around 21% lower typical power consumption: 29 Watt vs 35 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB (DDR3) vs 512 MB

Core clock speed	1620 MHz vs 598 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt vs 35 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB (DDR3) vs 512 MB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6750M Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6750M Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce GT 520
PassMark - G3D Mark		313
PassMark - G2D Mark		135
Geekbench - OpenCL		1274
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		2.597
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		76.214
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.239
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		5.862
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		4.574
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		545
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		903
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1455
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		545
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		903
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1455

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6750M Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce GT 520
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Whistler	GF119
Launch date	18 April 2011	13 April 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	1597
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$59
Price now		$59.99
Value for money (0-100)		7.58
Technical info
Core clock speed	598 MHz	1620 MHz
Floating-point performance	574.1 gflops	155.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	480	48
Texture fill rate	14.35 GTexel / s	6.5 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	29 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	292 million
CUDA cores		48
Maximum GPU temperature		102 °C
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA, Dual Link DVI-IHDMIVGA (optional)
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support		16x PCI-E 2.0
Height		2.7" (6.9 cm)
Length		5.7" (14.5 cm)
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	1 GB (DDR3)
Memory bandwidth	50.8 GB / s	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	3176 MHz	900 MHz (DDR3)
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Technologies
CUDA