Radeon 520 and GeForce 9800S - video card comparison

Radeon 520

GeForce 9800S

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Tesla (2006−2010)

GPU code name

Oland

G94

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2017

July 2008

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

-

SLI options

-

+

Core clock speed

1030 MHz

600 MHz

CUDA cores

-

64

Floating-point performance

659.2 gflops

192 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

65 nm

Number of transistors

1,040 million

505 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

64

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

75 Watt

Texture fill rate

20.60

19.2 billion/sec

Memory type

DDR3, GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

2250 MHz

800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

16 GB/s

51.2 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

VGAHDMISingle Link DVI

Multi monitor support

-

+

HDMI

+

+

Maximum VGA resolution

-

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

-

S/PDIF + HDA

DirectX

12.0

11.1 (10_0)

CUDA

-

+

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

Shader Model

5.0

4.0

Vulkan

+

N/A