Radeon 520 and GeForce 6500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon 520 vs GeForce 6500
Radeon 520
811
GeForce 6500
39
Radeon 520
GeForce 6500
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
Oland
NV44 A2
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2017
October 2005
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
1030 MHz
400 MHz
Floating-point performance
659.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
1,040 million
75 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
-
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
20.60
1.600
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2250 MHz
532 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
8.512 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12.0
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
5.0
3.0
Vulkan
+
N/A