NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M vs AMD Radeon HD 6520G

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M and AMD Radeon HD 6520G 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 - T-Rex (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 555M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
  • 2.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 654 vs 300
  • Around 35% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 111 vs 82
  • 3.8x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 2860 vs 749
  • Around 76% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 1134 vs 644
  • Around 44% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2265 vs 1577
  • Around 76% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 1134 vs 644
  • Around 44% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2265 vs 1577
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 27 October 2011 vs 15 June 2011
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 654 vs 300
PassMark - G2D Mark 111 vs 82
Geekbench - OpenCL 2860 vs 749
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1134 vs 644
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2265 vs 1577
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1134 vs 644
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2265 vs 1577

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6520G

  • 2.2x more pipelines: 320 vs 144
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 40 nm
  • Around 11% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3134 vs 2827
  • Around 11% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3134 vs 2827
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 320 vs 144
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm vs 40 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3134 vs 2827
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3134 vs 2827

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6520G

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
654
300
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
111
82
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
2860
749
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1134
644
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2265
1577
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2827
3134
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1134
644
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2265
1577
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2827
3134
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M AMD Radeon HD 6520G
PassMark - G3D Mark 654 300
PassMark - G2D Mark 111 82
Geekbench - OpenCL 2860 749
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 7.699
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 252.895
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.727
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 12.581
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 21.909
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1134 644
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2265 1577
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2827 3134
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1134 644
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2265 1577
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2827 3134

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M AMD Radeon HD 6520G

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Terascale 2
Code name GF106 Llano
Launch date 27 October 2011 15 June 2011
Place in performance rating 1417 1418
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 753 MHz
CUDA cores Up to 144
Floating-point performance 388.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 32 nm
Pipelines 144 320
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt
Transistor count 1,170 million 1000 Million
Core clock speed 400 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 2.0
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12 API 11
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB
Memory type DDR3\DDR5
Shared memory 0 1

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus
SLI