GeForce GT 520M and Radeon HD 7450 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce GT 520M
Radeon HD 7450 OEM
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N12P-GP/LV
Caicos
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
January 2012
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
740 / 600 MHz
625 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
129.02 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
160
Power consumption (TDP)
12 Watt
18 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.9 billion/sec
5.000
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1066 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
8.528 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 API
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Optimus
+
-