GeForce GTX 960M and Radeon 520 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon 520
GeForce GTX 960M
3496
Radeon 520
811
GeForce GTX 960M
Radeon 520
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
N16P-GX
Oland
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2015
March 2017
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1202 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1096 MHz
1030 MHz
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,505 gflops
659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
320
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
47.04
20.60
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
80 GB/s
16 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12.0
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
+
Ansel
+
-
BatteryBoost
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-