GeForce GT 520 PCI and Radeon HD 5550 - video card comparison
GeForce GT 520 PCI
Radeon HD 5550
Architecture
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GF119
Redwood
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2011
February 2010
Interface
PCI
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
810 MHz
550 MHz
Floating-point performance
155.52 gflops
352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
292 million
627 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
320
Power consumption (TDP)
29 Watt
39 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.480
8.800
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
2.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A