AMD Radeon HD 7520G vs NVIDIA GeForce 305M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7520G and NVIDIA GeForce 305M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7520G

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • 12x more pipelines: 192 vs 16
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 40 nm
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 316 vs 151
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 June 2012 vs 10 January 2010
Pipelines 192 vs 16
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 316 vs 151

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 305M

  • 2.3x more core clock speed: 1150 MHz vs 497 MHz
  • 2.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 1987 vs 947
  • Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 149 vs 109
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1150 MHz vs 497 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 1987 vs 947
PassMark - G2D Mark 149 vs 109

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7520G
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 305M

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
947
1987
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
109
149
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
316
151
Name AMD Radeon HD 7520G NVIDIA GeForce 305M
Geekbench - OpenCL 947 1987
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1604
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1604
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2926
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2926
PassMark - G2D Mark 109 149
PassMark - G3D Mark 316 151

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7520G NVIDIA GeForce 305M

Essentials

Architecture Terascale 3 Tesla 2.0
Code name Trinity GT218
Launch date 1 June 2012 10 January 2010
Place in performance rating 1325 1326
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 686 MHz
Core clock speed 497 MHz 1150 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 192 16
CUDA cores 16
Floating-point performance 36.8 gflops
Gigaflops 55
Texture fill rate 4.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt
Transistor count 260 million

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Laptop size medium sized
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16

API support

DirectX 11 10.1
OpenGL 2.1

Memory

Shared memory 1 0
Memory bandwidth 11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory type GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0