HD Graphics 520 and GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 - video card comparison

HD Graphics 520

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

Architecture

Gen. 9 Skylake (2015−2016)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

Skylake GT2

GF100

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

September 2015

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x1

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1050 MHz

Core clock speed

300 MHz

527 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

189 million

3,100 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

Power consumption (TDP)

15 Watt

375 Watt

Texture fill rate

25.20

33.73

Memory type

DDR3L/LPDDR3/DDR4

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

32 GB

1536 MB

Memory bus width

64/128 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

System Shared

2.8 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

134.4 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

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