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GeForce GT 520MX and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 520MX vs Radeon RX 590

GeForce GT 520MX
288
Radeon RX 590
9695

GeForce GT 520MX

Radeon RX 590


Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Polaris (2016−2019)

GPU code name
N12P-GVR
Polaris 30

Market segment
Laptop
Desktop

Release date
May 2011
November 2018

Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed
-
1545 MHz

Core clock speed
900 MHz
1469 MHz

CUDA cores
48
-

Floating-point performance
172.8 gflops
-

Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
12 nm

Number of transistors
292 million
5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
2304

Power consumption (TDP)
20 Watt
175 Watt

Texture fill rate
7.2 billion/sec
222.5

Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
8 GB

Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit

Memory clock speed
900 MHz
8000 MHz

Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
256.0 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI
-
+

DirectX
12 API
12 (12_0)

CUDA
+
-

OpenCL
1.1
2.0

OpenGL
4.5
4.6

Shader Model
5.1
6.4

Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131

FreeSync
-
+

Optimus
+
-