Radeon HD 8850M and GeForce GT 520 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8850M vs GeForce GT 520
Radeon HD 8850M
1002
GeForce GT 520
318
Radeon HD 8850M
GeForce GT 520
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Venus
GF119
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
December 2012
April 2011
Bus support
-
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
725 MHz
-
Core clock speed
575 MHz
810 MHz
CUDA cores
-
48
Floating-point performance
800.0 gflops
155.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
292 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
48
Power consumption (TDP)
-
29 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
102 °C
Texture fill rate
25.00
6.5 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5, DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB (DDR3)
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
900 MHz (DDR3)
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
Dual Link DVI-IHDMIVGA (optional)
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.2
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A