NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M vs ATI Mobility Radeon X1900
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520M and 256MB VRAM Mobility Radeon X1900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M 's Advantages
Released 4 years late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
48 additional rendering cores
ATI Mobility Radeon X1900 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (30.08GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2011
Release Date
Jan 2007
GeForce 500M
Generation
M6x
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-III
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
470 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
30.08GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
1
SM Count
-
48
Shading Units
-
8
TMUs
12
4
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.480 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
5.920 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
142.1 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
11.84 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
12W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
GF119
GPU Name
M68
N12P-GV-B-A1
GPU Variant
-
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
Ultra-Threaded SE
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.292 billion
Transistors
0.312 billion
79 mm²
Die Size
230 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.1
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
3.0
