Radeon RX 580 and GeForce GT 520 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon RX 580
GeForce GT 520 OEM
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Polaris 20
GF119
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
August 2012
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1340 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1257 MHz
589 MHz
Floating-point performance
6,175 gflops
269.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
292 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
96
Power consumption (TDP)
185 Watt
29 Watt
Texture fill rate
193.0
9.424
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
2.1
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A