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.

AMD Radeon HD 7520G

NVIDIA GeForce 305M

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 944
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 944
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

944

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	944	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	1326	1327
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