NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M vs AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M and 2GB VRAM Radeon 520 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.80GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280M

0.374 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile +76%

0.659 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280M

VS

Radeon 520 Mobile

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 200M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-IV

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

950 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

60.80GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

128

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.360 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.240 GPixel/s

37.44 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

374.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

659.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

41.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Banks

N10E-GTX

GPU Variant

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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