GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 and Radeon 550 - video card comparison
GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1
Radeon 550
Architecture
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
GF119
Lexa
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2011
April 2017
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x1
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
-
1183 MHz
Core clock speed
810 MHz
1100 MHz
Floating-point performance
155.52 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
292 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
512
Power consumption (TDP)
29 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.480
37.86
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
7 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
56 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
2.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
Vulkan
N/A
1.3