AMD Radeon 520 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

VS

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 520 Mobile and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260M 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 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

208 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 65W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M 's Advantages

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 520 Mobile +113%

0.659 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260M

0.308 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 260M

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Mar 2009

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

60.80GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

320

Shading Units

112

20

TMUs

56

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.800 GPixel/s

20.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.80 GTexel/s

-

659.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

308.0 GFLOPS

41.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

65W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Banks

GPU Name

G92

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

GPU Variant

N10E-GT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

324 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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