Radeon 520 and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon 520 vs Radeon R5 230
Radeon 520
811
Radeon R5 230
228
Radeon 520
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Oland
Caicos
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2017
April 2014
Bus support
-
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
N/A
Core clock speed
1030 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
659.2 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,040 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
160
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
20.60
5.000
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
2250 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
10.67 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12.0
DirectX® 11
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-