AMD Radeon HD 6750M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6750M Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 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 6750M Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6750M Mac Edition

2.2x more texture fill rate: 14.35 GTexel / s vs 6.48 GTexel / s
10x more pipelines: 480 vs 48
3.7x better floating-point performance: 574.1 gflops vs 155.52 gflops
Around 76% higher memory clock speed: 3176 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Texture fill rate	14.35 GTexel / s vs 6.48 GTexel / s
Pipelines	480 vs 48
Floating-point performance	574.1 gflops vs 155.52 gflops
Memory clock speed	3176 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

Around 35% higher core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 598 MHz
Around 21% lower typical power consumption: 29 Watt vs 35 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB

Core clock speed	810 MHz vs 598 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt vs 35 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6750M Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1
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	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	598 MHz	810 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	6.48 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 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)	PCIe 2.0 x1
Length		152 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	512 MB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	50.8 GB / s	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	3176 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3