AMD Radeon 520 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 945A

VS

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce 945A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 520 Mobile and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 945A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

NVIDIA GeForce 945A 's Advantages

Boost Clock1189MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (40.10GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (33W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 520 Mobile

0.659 TFLOPS

GeForce 945A +38%

0.913 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile

VS

GeForce 945A

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Mar 2015

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 900A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1006 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1189 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

40.10GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

384

20

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.512 GPixel/s

20.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.54 GTexel/s

-

659.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

913.2 GFLOPS

41.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

28.54 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Banks

GPU Name

GM108

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

Unknown

56 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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