GeForce GT 520M and Radeon 3000 IGP - video card comparison
GeForce GT 520M
Radeon 3000 IGP
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
N12P-GP/LV
RS780
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
2009
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
740 / 600 MHz
350 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
129.02 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
180 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
40
Power consumption (TDP)
12 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
5.9 billion/sec
1.400
Memory type
DDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
64 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
Motherboard Dependent
DirectX
12 API
10.0 (10_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.0
OpenGL
4.5
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Optimus
+
-