NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX vs ATI Radeon X1650

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX and ATI Radeon X1650 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 80% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 3.6x more texture fill rate: 7.2 billion / sec vs 2 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
  • Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 900 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1639 vs 1615
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1639 vs 1615
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 30 May 2011 vs 1 February 2007
Core clock speed 900 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 7.2 billion / sec vs 2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 900 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1639 vs 1615
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1639 vs 1615

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1650

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1639
1615
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1639
1615
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX ATI Radeon X1650
PassMark - G3D Mark 284
PassMark - G2D Mark 54
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 1615
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 692
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1583
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1639 1615

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX ATI Radeon X1650

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 R500
Code name GF119 RV530
Launch date 30 May 2011 1 February 2007
Place in performance rating 1572 1569
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 900 MHz 500 MHz
CUDA cores 48
Floating-point performance 172.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 48
Texture fill rate 7.2 billion / sec 2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt
Transistor count 292 million 157 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 API 9.0c
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 900 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type DDR3 DDR2
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus
Verde Drivers