Radeon R5 M255 and GeForce GT 520 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R5 M255 vs GeForce GT 520
Radeon R5 M255
550
GeForce GT 520
318
Radeon R5 M255
GeForce GT 520
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Topaz Pro / Sun
GF119
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2014
April 2011
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x8
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
940 MHz
-
Compute units
5
-
Core clock speed
940 MHz
810 MHz
CUDA cores
-
48
Floating-point performance
721.9 gflops
155.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,550 million
292 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
48
Power consumption (TDP)
-
29 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
102 °C
Texture fill rate
22.56
6.5 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB (DDR3)
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
900 MHz (DDR3)
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
Dual Link DVI-IHDMIVGA (optional)
Multi monitor support
-
+
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
+
-
OpenCL
Not Listed
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.2
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
+
-
DualGraphics
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
+
-
PowerTune
+
-
Switchable graphics
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-