Extreme Graphics 2 vs Radeon 520

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking873not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.83no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Generation 2.0 (2002−2003)
GPU code nameBanksMontara
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)3 December 2003 (20 years ago)

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 cores320no data
Core clock speed1030 MHz200 MHz
Boost clock speedno data266 MHz
Number of transistors690 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattno data
Texture fill rate20.600.27
Floating-point processing power0.6592 TFLOPSno data
ROPs81
TMUs201

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 1.0 x16
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1125 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth36 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)7.0
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 3 December 2003
Chip lithography 28 nm 130 nm

Radeon 520 has an age advantage of 13 years, and a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 520 and Extreme Graphics 2. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 520 is a notebook card while Extreme Graphics 2 is a desktop one.


Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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AMD Radeon 520
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