AMD Radeon 520 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

VS

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 520 Mobile and 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M 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 8970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 520 Mobile

0.659 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M +249%

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

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

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

20

-

320

Shading Units

1280

20

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

20.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

-

659.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

41.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Banks

GPU Name

Neptune

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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