Radeon R7 260X and GeForce GT 520 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R7 260X vs GeForce GT 520
Radeon R7 260X
3282
GeForce GT 520
318
Radeon R7 260X
GeForce GT 520
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Bonaire
GF119
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
April 2011
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
810 MHz
CUDA cores
-
48
Floating-point performance
1,971 gflops
155.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,080 million
292 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
896
48
Power consumption (TDP)
115 Watt
29 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
102 °C
Texture fill rate
61.60
6.5 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB (DDR3)
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
900 MHz (DDR3)
Memory bandwidth
104 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Dual Link DVI-IHDMIVGA (optional)
Multi monitor support
-
+
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DisplayPort support
-
-
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.2
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-