NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M 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 970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock1038MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +303%

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile

0.659 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

Radeon 520 Mobile

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 900M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

-

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

-

1280

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

20

48

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.240 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.60 GTexel/s

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

659.2 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

41.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

50W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Banks

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.1

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