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).

 

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 283
PassMark - G2D Mark 53
Geekbench - OpenCL 1490
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 1572 1573
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