Radeon 520 and GeForce 8600 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon 520 vs GeForce 8600 GT
Radeon 520
811
GeForce 8600 GT
127
Radeon 520
GeForce 8600 GT
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Oland
G84
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2017
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
1030 MHz
540 MHz
Floating-point performance
659.2 gflops
76.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
1,040 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
32
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
20.60
8.6 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2250 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12.0
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
+
N/A