NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX vs Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX and Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 600 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 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 2.3x more core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • 12x more pipelines: 48 vs 4
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 45 nm
  • 47.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 284 vs 6
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 30 May 2011 vs 1 May 2010
Core clock speed 900 MHz vs 400 MHz
Pipelines 48 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 45 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 284 vs 6

Reasons to consider the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 600

  • Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 58 vs 54
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 58 vs 54

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX
GPU 2: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 600

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
284
6
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
54
58
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 600
PassMark - G3D Mark 284 6
PassMark - G2D Mark 54 58
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

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 600

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 PowerVR SGX5
Code name GF119 GMA 600
Launch date 30 May 2011 1 May 2010
Place in performance rating 1572 1575
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 900 MHz 400 MHz
CUDA cores 48
Floating-point performance 172.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 45 nm
Pipelines 48 4
Texture fill rate 7.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt
Transistor count 292 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16

API support

DirectX 12 API 9.0c
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 900 MHz
Memory type DDR3
Shared memory 0 yes

Technologies

CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus
Verde Drivers