GeForce GT 520 and HD Graphics 2500 - video card comparison
GeForce GT 520
HD Graphics 2500
Architecture
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
Gen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2011−2012)
GPU code name
GF119
Ivy Bridge GT1
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2011
April 2012
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
-
1150 MHz
Core clock speed
810 MHz
650 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
155.52 gflops
13.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
22 nm
Number of transistors
292 million
392 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
6
Power consumption (TDP)
29 Watt
unknown
Maximum GPU temperature
102 °C
-
Texture fill rate
6.5 billion/sec
6.900
Memory type
DDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB (DDR3)
System Shared
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz (DDR3)
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
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)
11.1 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.80