AMD Radeon 520 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

VS

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 520 Mobile and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A 's Advantages

Boost Clock936MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 520 Mobile

0.659 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850A +81%

1.198 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 850A

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Mar 2014

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 800A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

902 MHz

-

Boost Clock

936 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

640

20

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.98 GPixel/s

20.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.44 GTexel/s

-

659.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1198 GFLOPS

41.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.44 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Banks

GPU Name

GM107

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

GPU Variant

N15P-GT-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

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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