GeForce 6100 vs Radeon 520

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	837	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	1.97	no data
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name	Oland	C51
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	21 March 2017 (7 years ago)	11 October 2004 (19 years ago)
Current price	$140	$64

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	320	no data
Core clock speed	1030 MHz	425 MHz
Number of transistors	1,040 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	20.60	0.43
Floating-point performance	659.2 gflops	no data

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon 520 and GeForce 6100 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). 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.

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCI
Width	no data	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

Memory

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, GDDR5	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	64 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	16 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	-	no data

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 Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	No outputs
HDMI	+	no data

API support

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

DirectX	12.0	9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model	5.0	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	+	N/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

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

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Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	21 March 2017	11 October 2004
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	System Shared
Chip lithography	28 nm	90 nm

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