GeForce 840M and Radeon 520 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 840M vs Radeon 520
GeForce 840M
1121
Radeon 520
811
GeForce 840M
Radeon 520
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
N15S-GT
Oland
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2014
March 2017
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
1124 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1029 MHz
1030 MHz
Floating-point performance
863.2 gflops
659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
-
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
320
Power consumption (TDP)
33 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
17.98
20.60
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16.02 GB/s
16 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12.0
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
+
GameWorks
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
Optimus
+
-