GeForce GT 520 and Radeon HD 3730 - video card comparison
GeForce GT 520
Radeon HD 3730
Architecture
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
GF119
RV635
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2011
October 2008
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
810 MHz
722 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
155.52 gflops
173.28 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
292 million
378 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
120
Power consumption (TDP)
29 Watt
65 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
102 °C
-
Texture fill rate
6.5 billion/sec
5.776
Memory type
DDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB (DDR3)
512 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz (DDR3)
792 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
12.67 GB/s
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-IHDMIVGA (optional)
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.2
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A