AMD Radeon 520 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS

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AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 520 Mobile and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

272 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 60W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 520 Mobile +418%

0.659 TFLOPS

GeForce 9700M GTS

0.127 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile

VS

GeForce 9700M GTS

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jul 2008

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

320

Shading Units

48

20

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.480 GPixel/s

20.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.72 GTexel/s

-

659.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

127.2 GFLOPS

41.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

60W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Banks

GPU Name

G94

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

GPU Variant

NB9E-GS

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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