NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX vs AMD Radeon R9 M280X
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520MX and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 M280X 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1000MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
848 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 520MX
0.173 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 M280X
+935%
1.792 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2011
Release Date
Feb 2015
GeForce 500M
Generation
Gem System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
900 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
88.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
14
1
SM Count
-
48
Shading Units
896
8
TMUs
56
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.00 GPixel/s
7.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
56.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
172.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.792 TFLOPS
14.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
112.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
GF119
GPU Name
Saturn
N12P-GVR-B-A1
GPU Variant
Saturn XT
(216-0843024)
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.292 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
79 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.170
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.5
