Radeon HD 8570M and R520 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8570M

R520

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Ultra-Threaded SE

GPU code name

Sun

R520

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

November 2012

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

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Boost clock speed

825 MHz

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Core clock speed

650 MHz

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Floating-point performance

528.0 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

690 million

312 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

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Texture fill rate

16.50

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Memory type

DDR3

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Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

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Memory bus width

64 Bit

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Memory clock speed

1800 - 2000 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

16 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

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Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

12 (11_1)

9.0c (9_3)

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

Shader Model

5.1

3.0

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A