Radeon 520 and GeForce GT 540M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon 520 vs GeForce GT 540M
Radeon 520
811
GeForce GT 540M
493
Radeon 520
GeForce GT 540M
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Oland
N12P-GS
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2017
January 2011
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
1030 MHz
672 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
659.2 gflops
258.05 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,040 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
96
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
20.60
10.8 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2250 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12.0
12 API
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
+
N/A
3D Blu-Ray
-
+
3D Gaming
-
+
Optimus
-
+