Radeon HD 6750M Mac Edition vs 520

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking882not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.80no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameBanksWhistler
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)18 April 2011 (13 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 cores320480
Core clock speed1030 MHz598 MHz
Number of transistors690 million716 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate20.6014.35
Floating-point processing power0.6592 TFLOPS0.5741 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs2024

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 3.0 x8MXM-A (3.0)
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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz794 MHz
Memory bandwidth36 GB/s50.82 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 18 April 2011
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 35 Watt

Radeon 520 has an age advantage of 6 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

HD 6750M Mac Edition, on the other hand, has 42.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 520 and Radeon HD 6750M Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.


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