
Radeon 520 and GeForce GT 720 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon 520 vs GeForce GT 720
Radeon 520
811
GeForce GT 720
628
Radeon 520
GeForce GT 720
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015)
GPU code name
Oland
GK208B
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2017
September 2014
Bus support
-
PCI Express 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
1030 MHz
797 MHz
CUDA cores
-
192
Floating-point performance
659.2 gflops
306.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,040 million
915 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
192
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
19 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
98 °C
Texture fill rate
20.60
12.75
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
DDR3 / GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB or 1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
2250 MHz
1.8 GBps or 5.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
14.4 (DDR3) or 40 (GDDR5)
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Dual Link DVI-DHDMIVGA
Multi monitor support
-
3 displays
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12.0
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
+
1.1.126
3D Blu-Ray
-
+
3D Gaming
-
+
3D Vision
-
+