Radeon 610 vs 520

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Primary Details

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

Place in performance ranking837not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation1.95no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameOlandBanks
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date21 March 2017 (7 years ago)12 August 2019 (4 years ago)
Current price$140 $69

Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed Specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores320320
Core clock speed1030 MHz1030 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1030 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million690 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate20.6020.60
Floating-point performance659.2 gflopsno data

Form Factor & Compatibility

Information on Radeon 520 and Radeon 610 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDR3, GDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed2250 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/s36 GB/s
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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGANo outputs
HDMI+no data

API Compatibility

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

DirectX12.012 (11_1)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan+1.2.131

Pros & Cons Summary


Recency 21 March 2017 12 August 2019
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB

We couldn't decide between Radeon 520 and Radeon 610. We've got no test results to judge.


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