Radeon R7 M260 and GeForce GT 520M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R7 M260 vs GeForce GT 520M
Radeon R7 M260
511
GeForce GT 520M
289
Radeon R7 M260
GeForce GT 520M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Opal Pro / Mars
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
None
Boost clock speed
980 MHz
-
Compute units
6
-
Core clock speed
715 MHz
740 / 600 MHz
CUDA cores
-
48
Floating-point performance
721.9 gflops
129.02 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,550 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
48
Power consumption (TDP)
-
12 Watt
Texture fill rate
23.52
5.9 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 API
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
+
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.3
4.5
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
DualGraphics
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
Optimus
-
+
PowerTune
+
-
Switchable graphics
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-