GeForce GT 520 OEM vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameParkGF119
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2010 (14 years ago)20 August 2012 (12 years ago)

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 cores8096
Core clock speed650 MHz589 MHz
Number of transistors292 million292 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)11 Watt29 Watt
Texture fill rate5.2009.424
Floating-point processing power0.104 TFLOPS0.2692 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs816

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data145 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed667 MHz500 MHz
Memory bandwidth10.67 GB/s8 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 20 August 2012
Power consumption (TDP) 11 Watt 29 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 5450 has 163.6% lower power consumption.

GT 520 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 5450 and GeForce GT 520 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 5450 is a notebook card while GeForce GT 520 OEM is a desktop one.


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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450
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