
GeForce GT 520M and Radeon R2 Graphics - video card comparison
GeForce GT 520M
Radeon R2 Graphics
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
N12P-GP/LV
Beema
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
February 2015
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
740 / 600 MHz
351 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
129.02 gflops
179.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
930 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
128
Power consumption (TDP)
12 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.9 billion/sec
2.808
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
No outputs
DirectX
12 API
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.3
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
Optimus
+
-