Radeon HD 7970M and GeForce GT 520M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7970M vs GeForce GT 520M
Radeon HD 7970M
3635
GeForce GT 520M
289
Radeon HD 7970M
GeForce GT 520M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Wimbledon XT
N12P-GP/LV
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2012
January 2011
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
850 MHz
740 / 600 MHz
CUDA cores
-
48
Floating-point performance
2,176 gflops
129.02 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
48
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
12 Watt
Texture fill rate
68.00
5.9 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 API
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
Optimus
-
+