
Radeon 520 and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon 520 vs Radeon 8500
Radeon 520
811
Radeon 8500
6
Radeon 520
Radeon 8500
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
Oland
R200
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2017
August 2001
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
1030 MHz
275 MHz
Floating-point performance
659.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
1,040 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
-
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
20.60
2.200
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2250 MHz
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
8.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12.0
8.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
1.4
Shader Model
5.0
-
Vulkan
+
N/A