Radeon HD 6950M and GeForce GT 520MX - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6950M
GeForce GT 520MX
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Blackcomb Pro
N12P-GVR
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2011
May 2011
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Core clock speed
580 MHz
900 MHz
CUDA cores
-
48
Floating-point performance
1,113.6 gflops
172.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
292 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
48
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
27.84
7.2 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 API
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Optimus
-
+