AMD Radeon 520
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
AMD Radeon 520
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon 520 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

719
Place in performance rating
809
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
Oland
Code name
GF117
Laptop
Type
Desktop
21 March 2017 (4 years ago)
Release date
1 July 2014 (7 years ago)
$140
Price now
$639
3.54
Value for money
0.14
Oland
GPU code name
GF117
Laptop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon 520 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

320
Pipelines
96
1030 MHz
Core clock speed
775 MHz
1,040 million
Transistor count
585 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
50 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
33 Watt
20.60
Texture fill rate
12.40
659.2 gflops
Floating-point performance
360.2 gflops
320
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
1,040 million
Number of transistors
585 million
50 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
33 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon 520 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A.

PCIe 3.0 x8
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
None
Supplementary power connectors
no data

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon 520 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A can be seen in this section.

DDR3, GDDR5
Memory type
DDR3
2 GB
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
64 Bit
Memory bus width
64 Bit
2250 MHz
Memory clock speed
2002 MHz
16 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
16.02 GB/s
-
Shared memory
no data

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon 520 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A, the size and number of monitors.

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Display Connectors
No outputs
+
HDMI
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon 520 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

DirectX 12, Shader 5.0
DirectX
12 (11_0)
no data
OpenGL
4.6
+
Vulkan
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon 520 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon 520 or NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon 520
NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon 520
NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon 520
NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon 520
NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon 520
NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon 520

1.07% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($140 vs $639)

More pipelines (320 vs 96)

More maximum RAM amount (2 GB vs 1 GB)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

Less power consumption (33 Watt vs 50 Watt)

More memory bandwidth (16.02 GB/s vs 16 GB/s)

So, AMD Radeon 520 or NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon 520 .

AMD Radeon 520 versus NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon 520
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