Radeon 520 and GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB - video card comparison
Radeon 520
GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Oland
N17P-G1 Max-Q
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2017
May 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
-
1341 - 1480 MHz
Core clock speed
1030 MHz
1063 - 1265 MHz
Floating-point performance
659.2 gflops
3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
1,040 million
4,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
60 - 70 Watt
Texture fill rate
20.60
118.4
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
6.144 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
2250 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
12.0
12.0
CUDA
-
6.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
+
+
VR Ready
-
+