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AMD Radeon 520

2 GB DDR3 / GDDR5 · 64-bit · 320 cores

The Radeon 520 is an OEM-only entry-level desktop graphics card from AMD's Radeon 500 series, released on April 18, 2017 and sold only pre-installed in prebuilt systems. Despite the 500-series name it is a rebranded Banks GPU from the first-generation Graphics Core Next architecture on 28 nm. It was offered with either GDDR5 memory at 4.5 Gbps (36 GB/s) or slower DDR3 at 2 Gbps (16 GB/s), as a low-cost graphics upgrade for budget desktops.

General

Manufacturer
AMD
Model
Radeon 520
Segment
Desktop
GPU chip
Banks
Architecture
GCN 1
Release date
Apr 18, 2017
Price
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Memory

Memory size
1 – 2 GB
Memory type
DDR3 / GDDR5
Bus width
64-bit
Bandwidth
36 GB/s
Memory clock
1,125 MHz

Clocks & silicon

GPU clock
1,030 MHz
Boost clock
—
Shader units
320 Stream Processors (5 CU)
Tensor / AI cores
—
RT cores
—
Transistors
0.69 billion
Technology (nm)
28 nm
TSMC 28 nm
TDP / TBP
50 W

Interface & APIs

Bus interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
SLI / multi-GPU
—
DirectX
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
Vulkan
1.2
Other APIs
OpenCL 2.1

AI support

Precisions
FP8FP16BF16INT8INT4TF32FP64
AI accelerator
—
Peak AI TOPS
—
Notes
—

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