HD Graphics 520 and T500 Max-Q - video card comparison

HD Graphics 520

T500 Max-Q

Architecture

Gen. 9 Skylake (2015−2016)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Skylake GT2

TU117

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

September 2015

December 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x1

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Boost clock speed

1050 MHz

1425 MHz

Core clock speed

300 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

189 million

4,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

24

896

Power consumption (TDP)

15 Watt

18 Watt

Texture fill rate

25.20

79.80

Memory type

DDR3L/LPDDR3/DDR4

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

32 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

64/128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

System Shared

10 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

-

80 GB/s

Shared memory

+

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

Portable Device Dependent

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

-

7.5

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.7 (6.4)

Vulkan

+

1.3

Quick Sync

+

-