GeForce GTX 870M and Radeon 520 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 870M vs Radeon 520
GeForce GTX 870M
3552
Radeon 520
811
GeForce GTX 870M
Radeon 520
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
N15P-GT
Oland
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2014
March 2017
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
967 MHz
-
Core clock speed
941 MHz
1030 MHz
CUDA cores
1344
-
Floating-point performance
2,599 gflops
659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1344
320
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
108.3
20.60
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 2500 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
120.0 GB/s
16 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory configuration
GDDR5
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
eDP 1.2 signal support
Up to 3840x2160
-
LVDS signal support
Up to 1920x1200
-
VGA аnalog display support
Up to 2048x1536
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
Up to 3840x2160
-
HDCP content protection
+
-
HDMI
+
+
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12.0
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
+
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
+
-