ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

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Games supported 49%
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX
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  • Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
  • Core clock speed 900
  • Max video memory 1024 MB
  • Memory type DDR3
  • Memory clock speed 900 MHz
  • Maximum resolution
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4550
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4550
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  • Interface MXM-II
  • Core clock speed 550
  • Max video memory 512 MB
  • Memory type GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3
  • Memory clock speed 700
  • Maximum resolution
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Games supported 40%

General info

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

Place in performance rating1067not rated
Value for money2.68no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Terascale 1 (2008−2010)
GPU code nameN12P-GVRM92
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date30 May 2011 (11 years old)1 January 2010 (13 years old)
Current price$2.79 no data
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4880
CUDA cores48no data
Core clock speed900 MHz550 MHz
Number of transistors292 million242 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm55 nm
Thermal design power (TDP)20 Wattno data
Texture fill rate7.2 billion/sec4.400
Floating-point performance172.8 gflops88 gflops

Dimensions and compatibility

Information on GeForce GT 520MX and Mobility Radeon HD 4550 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16MXM-II
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

Memory

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

Memory typeDDR3GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s11.2 GB/s
Shared memory--

Video outputs and ports

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

Technologies

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

Optimus+no data

API support

APIs supported, including particular versions of those APIs.

DirectX12 API10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model5.14.1
OpenGL4.53.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
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Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.


  • 3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 16%

GT 520MX 2620
+149%
ATI Mobility HD 4550 1051

GeForce GT 520MX outperforms Mobility Radeon HD 4550 by 149% in 3DMark Vantage Performance.

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of GeForce GT 520MX and Mobility Radeon HD 4550. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 15 Mh/s no data

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 30 May 2011 1 January 2010
Memory bandwidth 14.4 11.2
Pipelines / CUDA cores 48 80
Chip lithography 40 nm 55 nm

Technical City couldn't decide between

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX
GeForce GT 520MX

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4550
Mobility Radeon HD 4550

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Competitors of GeForce GT 520MX by AMD

We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GT 520MX from AMD is Mobility Radeon HD 550v.

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Competitors of Mobility Radeon HD 4550 by NVIDIA

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Mobility Radeon HD 4550 from NVIDIA is GeForce 320M.

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