NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX vs ATI Radeon HD 5770 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX and ATI Radeon HD 5770 X2 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 - 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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

ATI Radeon HD 5770 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
Around 6% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 850 MHz

Launch date	30 May 2011 vs 13 October 2010
Core clock speed	900 MHz vs 850 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5770 X2

32.5x more texture fill rate: 2x 34.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 7.2 billion / sec
33.3x more pipelines: 2x 800 vs 48
15.7x better floating-point performance: 2x 1,360.0 gflops vs 172.8 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 2x 1 GB vs 1 GB
5.3x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 900 MHz

Texture fill rate	2x 34.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 7.2 billion / sec
Pipelines	2x 800 vs 48
Floating-point performance	2x 1,360.0 gflops vs 172.8 gflops
Maximum memory size	2x 1 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 900 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5770 X2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX	ATI Radeon HD 5770 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	282
PassMark - G2D Mark	53
Geekbench - OpenCL	1458
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	3.315
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	122.375
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	7.629
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	15.403
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	692
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1583
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1639
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	692
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1583
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1639
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		2.092

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX	ATI Radeon HD 5770 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GF119	Juniper
Launch date	30 May 2011	13 October 2010
Place in performance rating	1567	1568
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	900 MHz	850 MHz
CUDA cores	48
Floating-point performance	172.8 gflops	2x 1,360.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	48	2x 800
Texture fill rate	7.2 billion / sec	2x 34.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	1,040 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
API support
DirectX	12 API	11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2x 1 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	2x 76.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	2x 128 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	4800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11	DirectX 11
Optimus
Verde Drivers