GeForce FX 5600 and Radeon R7 M520 - video card comparison
GeForce FX 5600
Radeon R7 M520
Architecture
Rankine (2003−2005)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
NV31
Oland
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2003
April 2017
Interface
AGP 8x
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
325 MHz
1030 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
80 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
320
Power consumption (TDP)
37 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
1.300
20.60
Memory type
DDR
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
500 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8 GB/s
16 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
9.0a
12.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
1.5 (2.1)
4.6
Shader Model
-
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
-