Radeon 520 and GeForce GT 240 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon 520 vs GeForce GT 240
Radeon 520
811
GeForce GT 240
525
Radeon 520
GeForce GT 240
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
Oland
GT215
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2017
November 2009
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
1030 MHz
550 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
659.2 gflops
257.28 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,040 million
727 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
96
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
69 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105C C
Texture fill rate
20.60
17.60
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB or 1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2250 MHz
1700 MHz GDDR5, 1000 MHz GDDR3, 900 MHz DDR3 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
54.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
DVIVGAHDMI
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12.0
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.2
Shader Model
5.0
4.1
Vulkan
+
N/A