GeForce 945M and HD Graphics 520 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 945M vs HD Graphics 520
GeForce 945M
2171
HD Graphics 520
856
GeForce 945M
HD Graphics 520
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Gen. 9 Skylake (2015−2016)
GPU code name
GM107
Skylake GT2
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2015
September 2015
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x1
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
1045 MHz
1050 MHz
Core clock speed
928 MHz
300 MHz
Floating-point performance
953.9 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
189 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
24
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
40.80
25.20
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3L/LPDDR3/DDR4
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
32 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.126
+
GameWorks
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
Optimus
+
-
Quick Sync
-
+