AMD Radeon 520 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

VS

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 520 Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M 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 11 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 520 Mobile

0.659 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M +150%

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

May 2013

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

12

-

320

Shading Units

768

20

TMUs

48

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

17.20 GPixel/s

20.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

-

659.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

41.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Banks

GPU Name

Saturn

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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