NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 vs AMD Radeon HD 6350A

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 and AMD Radeon HD 6350A videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

AMD Radeon HD 6350A

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

Around 25% higher core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 650 MHz
Around 25% higher texture fill rate: 6.48 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
Around 50% better floating-point performance: 155.52 gflops vs 104 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Core clock speed	810 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	6.48 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	155.52 gflops vs 104 gflops
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6350A

Around 67% higher pipelines: 80 vs 48
Around 16% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 29 Watt

Pipelines	80 vs 48
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 29 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1	AMD Radeon HD 6350A
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GF119	Cedar
Launch date	13 April 2011	7 April 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	810 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	155.52 gflops	104 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	48	80
Texture fill rate	6.48 GTexel / s	5.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	292 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x1	MXM-A (3.0)
Length	152 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	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3