Radeon 520 and GeForce GTX 490 - video card comparison

Radeon 520

GeForce GTX 490

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

Oland

GF100

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

March 2017

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

2x 8-pin

Core clock speed

1030 MHz

608 MHz

Floating-point performance

659.2 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,040 million

3,100 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

480

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

365 Watt

Texture fill rate

20.60

36.48

Memory type

DDR3, GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

1536 MB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

2250 MHz

3.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

16 GB/s

164.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

HDMI

+

-

DirectX

12.0

12 (11_0)

CUDA

-

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

5.1

Vulkan

+

N/A