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.

 

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

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