GeForce GT 520M and Radeon HD 3870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 520M vs Radeon HD 3870
GeForce GT 520M
289
Radeon HD 3870
572
GeForce GT 520M
Radeon HD 3870
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
N12P-GP/LV
RV670
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
November 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
740 / 600 MHz
777 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
129.02 gflops
497.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
320
Power consumption (TDP)
12 Watt
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.9 billion/sec
12.43
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
2252 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
72.06 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
+
-