GeForce GT 520M and Radeon R5 240 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce GT 520M
Radeon R5 240 OEM
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
N12P-GP/LV
Oland
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
November 2013
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
-
780 MHz
Core clock speed
740 / 600 MHz
730 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
129.02 gflops
499.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
384
Power consumption (TDP)
12 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.9 billion/sec
18.72
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 API
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
Optimus
+
-