AMD Radeon 520 Mobile vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870

VS

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 520 Mobile and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 4870 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 3 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (56.83GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 520 Mobile

0.659 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 4870 +33%

0.88 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 4870

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2009

Mobility Radeon

Generation

M9x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

888 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

56.83GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

10

-

320

Shading Units

800

20

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.800 GPixel/s

20.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.00 GTexel/s

-

659.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

880.0 GFLOPS

41.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

176.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Banks

GPU Name

M98

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

GPU Variant

M98 XT L2 (216-0732023)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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