AMD Radeon E8950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

VS

AMD Radeon E8950

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2000 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (12W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8950 +2784%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520M

0.142 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950

VS

GeForce GT 520M

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Jan 2011

Embedded

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

2048

Shading Units

48

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.480 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.920 GTexel/s

4.096 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

142.1 GFLOPS

256.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

11.84 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

12W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

GF119

E8950

GPU Variant

N12P-GV-B-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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