GeForce 256 SDR and Radeon R7 M520 - video card comparison
GeForce 256 SDR
Radeon R7 M520
Architecture
Celsius (1999−2005)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
NV10 A3
Oland
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 1999
April 2017
Interface
AGP 4x
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
120 MHz
1030 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
220 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
17 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
320
Power consumption (TDP)
-
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
0.48
20.60
Memory type
SDR
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
32 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
143 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
1.144 GB/s
16 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x VGA
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
7.0
12.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
1.2
4.6
Shader Model
-
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
-