Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and GeForce GT 520M - video card comparison
Mobility Radeon HD 5850
GeForce GT 520M
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Broadway-PRO
N12P-GP/LV
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2010
January 2011
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
625 MHz
740 / 600 MHz
CUDA cores
-
48
Floating-point performance
800.0 gflops
129.02 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,040 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
48
Power consumption (TDP)
39 Watt
12 Watt
Texture fill rate
20.00
5.9 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
64 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 API
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Optimus
-
+