Radeon R5 M230 and GeForce GT 520M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R5 M230 vs GeForce GT 520M
Radeon R5 M230
424
GeForce GT 520M
289
Radeon R5 M230
GeForce GT 520M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Jet / Sun
N12P-GP/LV
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2014
January 2011
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x8
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
855 MHz
-
Compute units
5
-
Core clock speed
855 MHz
740 / 600 MHz
CUDA cores
-
48
Floating-point performance
547.2 gflops
129.02 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
690 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
48
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
12 Watt
Texture fill rate
17.10
5.9 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
Eyefinity
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 API
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
+
-
OpenCL
Not Listed
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
+
-
DualGraphics
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
+
-
Optimus
-
+
PowerTune
+
-
Switchable graphics
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-