AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM 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 6850 1440SP Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

Around 23% higher core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 589 MHz
5.5x more texture fill rate: 52.2 GTexel / s vs 9.424 GTexel / s
15x more pipelines: 1440 vs 96
7.8x better floating-point performance: 2,088 gflops vs 269.2 gflops
4x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Core clock speed	725 MHz vs 589 MHz
Texture fill rate	52.2 GTexel / s vs 9.424 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1440 vs 96
Floating-point performance	2,088 gflops vs 269.2 gflops
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

5.2x lower typical power consumption: 29 Watt vs 151 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt vs 151 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition	NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Cypress	GF119
Launch date	21 August 2012	20 August 2012
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	725 MHz	589 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,088 gflops	269.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1440	96
Texture fill rate	52.2 GTexel / s	9.424 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	151 Watt	29 Watt
Transistor count	2,154 million	292 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	241 mm	145 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	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	128.0 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3