AMD Radeon 520 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M280X

VS

AMD Radeon 520 Mobile

AMD Radeon R9 M280X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 520 Mobile and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X 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 2 months late

AMD Radeon R9 M280X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

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

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 520 Mobile

0.659 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M280X +171%

1.792 TFLOPS

Radeon 520 Mobile

VS

Radeon R9 M280X

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Feb 2015

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

14

-

320

Shading Units

896

20

TMUs

56

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

16.00 GPixel/s

20.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

56.00 GTexel/s

-

659.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.792 TFLOPS

41.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

112.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Banks

GPU Name

Saturn

Banks PRO (216-0568010)

GPU Variant

Saturn XT (216-0843024)

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

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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