Radeon 520 and GeForce GT 550M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon 520 vs GeForce GT 550M
Radeon 520
811
GeForce GT 550M
590
Radeon 520
GeForce GT 550M
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Oland
N12P-GT
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2017
January 2011
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
1030 MHz
740 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
659.2 gflops
284.16 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
11.8 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1536 MB
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
Optimus
-
+