NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI vs AMD Radeon E6460

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI and AMD Radeon E6460 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI

AMD Radeon E6460

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI

Around 35% higher core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 600 MHz
Around 35% higher texture fill rate: 6.48 GTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB

Core clock speed	810 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate	6.48 GTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E6460

3.3x more pipelines: 160 vs 48
Around 23% better floating-point performance: 192 gflops vs 155.52 gflops
Around 16% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 29 Watt
Around 78% higher memory clock speed: 3200 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Pipelines	160 vs 48
Floating-point performance	192 gflops vs 155.52 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 29 Watt
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI
GPU 2: AMD Radeon E6460

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI	AMD Radeon E6460
PassMark - G3D Mark		324
PassMark - G2D Mark		225
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		1.616
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		104.843
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.225
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		4.942
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		18.457
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		531
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		801
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1925
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		531
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		801
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1925

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI	AMD Radeon E6460
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GF119	Caicos
Launch date	13 April 2011	7 April 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	1517
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	810 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	155.52 gflops	192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	48	160
Texture fill rate	6.48 GTexel / s	4.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	370 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCI	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	3200 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5