NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 0 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 2% higher texture fill rate: 5.9 billion / sec vs 5.76 GTexel / s
  • Around 12% better floating-point performance: 129.02 gflops vs 115.2 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 15 Watt
  • Around 49% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2380 vs 1595
  • Around 49% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2380 vs 1595
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 5 January 2011 vs 7 January 2010
Texture fill rate 5.9 billion / sec vs 5.76 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance 129.02 gflops vs 115.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 12 Watt vs 15 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2380 vs 1595
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2380 vs 1595

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145

  • Around 7% higher core clock speed: 720 MHz vs 672 MHz
  • Around 67% higher pipelines: 80 vs 48
  • 2.3x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 800 MHz
Core clock speed 720 MHz vs 672 MHz
Pipelines 80 vs 48
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 800 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2380
1595
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2380
1595
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145
PassMark - G3D Mark 286
PassMark - G2D Mark 74
Geekbench - OpenCL 1333
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 3.237
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 83.376
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.26
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 5.92
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 4.992
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 536
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1731
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2380 1595
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 536
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1731
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2380 1595

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145

Essentials

Architecture Fermi TeraScale
Code name GF108 M92
Launch date 5 January 2011 7 January 2010
Launch price (MSRP) $59.99
Place in performance rating 1564 1565
Price now $59.99
Type Laptop Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 7.54

Technical info

Core clock speed 672 MHz 720 MHz
CUDA cores 48
Floating-point performance 129.02 gflops 115.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 48 80
Texture fill rate 5.9 billion / sec 5.76 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 12 Watt 15 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 242 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16

API support

DirectX 12 API 10.1
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 12.8 GB / s 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type DDR3 DDR3, GDDR3
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

CUDA
DirectCompute
Optimus
Verde Drivers