Radeon R7 M520 and GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 - video card comparison
Radeon R7 M520
GeForce GTX 480 Core 512
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Oland
GF100
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
2x 8-pin
Core clock speed
1030 MHz
527 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
512
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
375 Watt
Texture fill rate
20.60
33.73
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
2.8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
134.4 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
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
-
N/A