Radeon 520 Mobile GDDR5 vs GeForce GTX 750

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	492	not rated
Place by popularity	95	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	4.38	no data
Power efficiency	10.97	no data
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2017)	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code name	GM107	Banks
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	18 February 2014 (10 years ago)	18 April 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$119	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	512	320
Core clock speed	1020 MHz	1030 MHz
Boost clock speed	1085 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	1,870 million	690 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	55 Watt	50 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature	95 °C	no data
Texture fill rate	34.72	20.60
Floating-point processing power	1.111 TFLOPS	0.6592 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	8
TMUs	32	20

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support	PCI Express 3.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	145 mm	no data
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	5.0 GB/s	1125 MHz
Memory bandwidth	80 GB/s	36 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One mini-HDMI	Portable Device Dependent
Multi monitor support	3 displays	no data
HDMI	+	-
HDCP	+	-
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	no data
Audio input for HDMI	Internal	no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Blu Ray 3D	+	-
3D Gaming	+	-
3D Vision	+	-
3D Vision Live	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	5.1	6.5 (5.1)
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan	1.1.126	1.2.170
CUDA	+	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	18 February 2014	18 April 2017
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Power consumption (TDP)	55 Watt	50 Watt

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