NVIDIA GeForce GT 520
VS
AMD Radeon HD 7450A
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520
VS
AMD Radeon HD 7450A

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 and AMD Radeon HD 7450A. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

964
Place in performance rating
973
4.34
Value for money (0-100)
no data
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
GF119
Code name
Caicos
Desktop
Type
Desktop
13 April 2011 (10 years ago)
Release date
5 January 2012 (9 years ago)
$59
Launch price (MSRP)
no data
$62 (1.1x MSRP)
Price now
$12.99
0.11
Value for money
0.56
GF119
GPU code name
Caicos
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 and AMD Radeon HD 7450A based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

48
Pipelines
160
810 MHz
Core clock speed
625 MHz
292 million
Transistor count
370 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
29 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
25 Watt
6.5 billion/sec
Texture fill rate
5.000
155.52 gflops
Floating-point performance
200.0 gflops
102 °C
Maximum GPU temperature
no data
48
CUDA cores
no data
48
Pipelines / CUDA cores
160
292 million
Number of transistors
370 million
29 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
25 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 and AMD Radeon HD 7450A.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
5.7" (14.5 cm)
Length
no data
None
Supplementary power connectors
no data
16x PCI-E 2.0
Bus support
no data
2.7" (6.9 cm)
Height
no data

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 NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 and AMD Radeon HD 7450A can be seen in this section.

DDR3
Memory type
GDDR3
1 GB (DDR3)
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
64 Bit
Memory bus width
64 Bit
900 MHz (DDR3)
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
14.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 and AMD Radeon HD 7450A, the size and number of monitors.

Dual Link DVI-IHDMIVGA (optional)
Display Connectors
No outputs
+
Multi monitor support
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2048x1536
Maximum VGA resolution
no data
Internal
Audio input for HDMI
no data
+
HDMI
no data

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 and AMD Radeon HD 7450A is the additional functionality.

+
CUDA
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 and AMD Radeon HD 7450A. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.2
OpenGL
4.4

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 and AMD Radeon HD 7450A 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 NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 or AMD Radeon HD 7450A good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 520
AMD Radeon HD 7450A
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 520
AMD Radeon HD 7450A
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 520
AMD Radeon HD 7450A
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 520
AMD Radeon HD 7450A
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GT 520
AMD Radeon HD 7450A
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 NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

More memory bandwidth (14.4 GB/s vs 12.8 GB/s)

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 7450A

0.01% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($12.99 vs $62 (1.1x MSRP))

More pipelines (160 vs 48)

Less power consumption (25 Watt vs 29 Watt)

More maximum RAM amount (512 MB vs 1 GB (DDR3))

So, NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 or AMD Radeon HD 7450A?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon HD 7450A .

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 versus AMD Radeon HD 7450A performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce GT 520
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon HD 7450A