GeForce 6500 and Radeon R7 M520 - video card comparison
GeForce 6500
Radeon R7 M520
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
NV44 A2
Oland
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2005
April 2017
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
400 MHz
1030 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
75 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
320
Power consumption (TDP)
-
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
1.600
20.60
Memory type
DDR2
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
532 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8.512 GB/s
16 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
12.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
3.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
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