AMD Cayman
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M
AMD Cayman
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
976
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Value for money (0-100)
10.45
TeraScale 3
Architecture
Fermi
Cayman
Code name
GF108
Desktop
Type
Laptop
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Release date
5 January 2011 (10 years ago)
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Launch price (MSRP)
$59.99
$17.44
Price now
$237 (4x MSRP)
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Value for money
0.02
Cayman
GPU code name
N12P-GP/LV
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1536
Pipelines
48
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Core clock speed
740 / 600 MHz
2,640 million
Transistor count
585 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
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Power consumption (TDP)
12 Watt
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Texture fill rate
5.9 billion/sec
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Floating-point performance
129.02 gflops
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CUDA cores
48
1536
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
2,640 million
Number of transistors
585 million
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Thermal design power (TDP)
12 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M.

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Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M can be seen in this section.

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Memory type
DDR3
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Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
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Memory bus width
64 Bit
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Memory clock speed
800 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
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Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
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Technologies

The difference between AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M is the additional functionality.

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CUDA
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Optimus
+
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Verde Drivers
+
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DirectCompute
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 API
4.4
OpenGL
4.5
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Vulkan
N/A
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Shader Model
5.1
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OpenCL
1.1

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Cayman or NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Cayman

Cheaper ($17.44 vs $237 (4x MSRP))

More pipelines (1536 vs 48)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

1.25% faster in synthetic tests

So, AMD Cayman or NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M .

AMD Cayman versus NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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