
GeForce GT 520M and Radeon HD 6250 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 520M vs Radeon HD 6250
GeForce GT 520M
289
Radeon HD 6250
96
GeForce GT 520M
Radeon HD 6250
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N12P-GP/LV
Zacate
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2011
November 2010
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
740 / 600 MHz
280 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
129.02 gflops
104 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
292 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
80
Power consumption (TDP)
12 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.9 billion/sec
5.200
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 API
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Optimus
+
-