GeForce GT 520MX and Radeon HD 3870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 520MX vs Radeon HD 3870
GeForce GT 520MX
288
Radeon HD 3870
572
GeForce GT 520MX
Radeon HD 3870
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
N12P-GVR
RV670
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2011
November 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
900 MHz
777 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
172.8 gflops
497.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
292 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
320
Power consumption (TDP)
20 Watt
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
7.2 billion/sec
12.43
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
2252 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 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
+
-