Radeon 520 and GeForce 8600M GT SLI - video card comparison
Radeon 520
GeForce 8600M GT SLI
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
G8x (2007−2008)
GPU code name
Oland
NB8P-GS
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2017
October 2007
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
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Supplementary power connectors
None
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Core clock speed
1030 MHz
475 MHz
Floating-point performance
659.2 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
1,040 million
598 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
64
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
20.60
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Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
GDDR3, GDDR2
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2250 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
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HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12.0
10
OpenCL
1.2
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OpenGL
4.6
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Shader Model
5.0
-
Vulkan
+
-