GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a vs Radeon R7 M520

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameOlandC78
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)17 April 2007 (17 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 cores32016
Core clock speed1030 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million210 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt40 Watt
Texture fill rate20.604.000
Floating-point processing powerno data0.0384 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs208

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 x8PCI
Width1-slotIGP
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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed2000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth16 GB/sno data

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 VGA1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.011.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.04.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 17 April 2007
Chip lithography 28 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 40 Watt

R7 M520 has an age advantage of 10 years, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

8100 + nForce 720a, on the other hand, has 25% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 M520 and GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R7 M520
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