GeForce GT 520M and Radeon HD 6290 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 520M vs Radeon HD 6290
GeForce GT 520M
289
Radeon HD 6290
108
GeForce GT 520M
Radeon HD 6290
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N12P-GP/LV
Zacate
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2011
July 2011
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
-
400 MHz
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
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
12.8 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
+
-