ATI Radeon 7000 vs GeForce GT 520M

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	1191	1565
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.01	no data
Power efficiency	4.23	no data
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)	Rage 6 (2000−2007)
GPU code name	GF108	RV100
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	5 January 2011 (14 years ago)	19 February 2001 (24 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$59.99	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	48	no data
Core clock speed	600 MHz	183 MHz
Number of transistors	585 million	30 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	12 Watt	23 Watt
Texture fill rate	4.800	0.55
Floating-point processing power	0.1152 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	4	1
TMUs	8	3

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	DDR3	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	32 MB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	183 MHz
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB/s	2.928 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

Portable Device Dependent

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus

+

-

API and SDK compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 API	7.0
Shader Model	5.1	no data
OpenGL	4.5	1.3
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	+	-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

900p	7	no data
Full HD	12	no data
1200p	7	no data

Cost per frame, $

1080p

5.00

no data

FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	5 January 2011	19 February 2001
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	32 MB
Chip lithography	40 nm	180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	12 Watt	23 Watt

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