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).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

ATI Radeon X1650

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	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	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	1567	1564
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