Radeon 520 and GeForce 8600M GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon 520 vs GeForce 8600M GT
Radeon 520
811
GeForce 8600M GT
92
Radeon 520
GeForce 8600M GT
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
G8x (2007−2008)
GPU code name
Oland
G84M
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2017
June 2007
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
1030 MHz
475 MHz
Floating-point performance
659.2 gflops
60.8 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
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
20.60
7.600
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
GDDR3, GDDR2
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
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12.0
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
+
N/A