GeForce GT 520M and Mobility Radeon HD 2600 - video card comparison
GeForce GT 520M
Mobility Radeon HD 2600
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
RV6xx (2007−2010)
GPU code name
N12P-GP/LV
M76
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2011
May 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
740 / 600 MHz
500 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
129.02 gflops
120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
390 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
120
Power consumption (TDP)
12 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
5.9 billion/sec
4.000
Memory type
DDR3
DDR2, GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
256+ MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 API
10.0 (10_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.5
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Optimus
+
-