GeForce GT 520M and Radeon HD 3730 - video card comparison
GeForce GT 520M
Radeon HD 3730
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
N12P-GP/LV
RV635
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
October 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
740 / 600 MHz
722 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
129.02 gflops
173.28 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
378 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
120
Power consumption (TDP)
12 Watt
65 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.9 billion/sec
5.776
Memory type
DDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
792 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
12.67 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 API
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.5
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Optimus
+
-