GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 and Radeon HD 2900 PRO - video card comparison
GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1
Radeon HD 2900 PRO
Architecture
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
GF119
R600
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2011
December 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x1
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Core clock speed
810 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
155.52 gflops
384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
292 million
720 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
320
Power consumption (TDP)
29 Watt
200 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.480
9.600
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
10.0 (10_0)
CUDA
2.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A