GeForce GT 520 and GeForce 720M - video card comparison
GeForce GT 520
GeForce 720M
Architecture
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
GF119
GF117
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2011
April 2013
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
810 MHz
625 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
155.52 gflops
240.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
292 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
96
Power consumption (TDP)
29 Watt
33 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
102 °C
-
Texture fill rate
6.5 billion/sec
10.00
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB (DDR3)
2 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz (DDR3)
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-IHDMIVGA (optional)
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A