Radeon R7 M520 and GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition - video card comparison

Radeon R7 M520

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

Oland

GF100

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2017

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Core clock speed

1030 MHz

608 MHz

Floating-point performance

659.2 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,040 million

3,100 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

448

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

215 Watt

Texture fill rate

20.60

34.05

Memory type

DDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

1280 MB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

320 Bit

Memory clock speed

2000 MHz

3.3 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

16 GB/s

133.9 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

HDMI

DirectX

12.0

12 (11_0)

CUDA

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

5.1

Vulkan

N/A