AMD Radeon 520 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

VS

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 520 Mobile and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M 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 6 months late

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 520 Mobile

0.659 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M +303%

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Oct 2014

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

924 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

1280

20

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

20.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

-

659.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

41.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Banks

GPU Name

GM204

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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