NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX vs AMD Radeon HD 8730A

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

AMD Radeon HD 8730A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520MX and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8730A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8730A 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock700MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

336 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520MX

0.173 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730A +210%

0.537 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520MX

VS

Radeon HD 8730A

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 500M

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

650 MHz

-

Boost Clock

700 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

384

8

TMUs

24

4

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.600 GPixel/s

7.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.80 GTexel/s

-

172.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

537.6 GFLOPS

14.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Mars

N12P-GVR-B-A1

GPU Variant

Mars M2 LP (216-0842009)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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