Radeon 520 and GeForce GTS 160M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon 520 vs GeForce GTS 160M
Radeon 520
811
GeForce GTS 160M
698
Radeon 520
GeForce GTS 160M
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name
Oland
N10E-GS1
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2017
March 2009
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
-
2-way
MXM Type
-
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Core clock speed
1030 MHz
600 MHz
CUDA cores
-
64
Floating-point performance
659.2 gflops
192 gflops
Gigaflops
-
288
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
1,040 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
64
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
20.60
19 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
Up to 800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
51 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
VGADisplayPortDual Link DVIHDMILVDSSingle Link DVI
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF
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
Power management
-
8.0