ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT vs GeForce GT 520M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1153not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.01no data
Power efficiency4.27no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameGF108M76
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date5 January 2011 (13 years ago)14 May 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$59.99 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores48120
Core clock speed600 MHz680 MHz
Number of transistors585 million390 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12 Wattno data
Texture fill rate4.8005.440
Floating-point processing power0.1152 TFLOPS0.1632 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs88

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16MXM-II
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB256 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz750 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s24 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentNo outputs

Supported technologies

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

Optimus+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 API10.0 (10_0)
Shader Model5.14.0
OpenGL4.53.3
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA+-

Synthetic benchmark performance

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



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.

GT 520M 2280
+96.7%
ATI Mobility HD 2600 XT 1159

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 January 2011 14 May 2007
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 65 nm

GT 520M has an age advantage of 3 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 62.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 520M and Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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