GeForce 7000M + nForce 610M vs Radeon R7 M520

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)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameOlandC67
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)1 February 2006 (18 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 MHz350 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million112 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattno data
Texture fill rate20.600.35
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
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 VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.09.0c (9_3)
Shader Model5.03.0
OpenGL4.62.1
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 1 February 2006
Chip lithography 28 nm 90 nm

R7 M520 has an age advantage of 11 years, and a 221.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 M520 and GeForce 7000M + nForce 610M. We've got no test results to judge.


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