GeForce GT 520M and Radeon VE PCI - video card comparison
GeForce GT 520M
Radeon VE PCI
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Rage 6 (2000−2007)
GPU code name
N12P-GP/LV
Rage 6
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
February 2001
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCI
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
740 / 600 MHz
183 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
129.02 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
180 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
30 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
-
Power consumption (TDP)
12 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.9 billion/sec
0.55
Memory type
DDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
32 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
366 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
2.928 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 API
7.0
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.5
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Optimus
+
-