AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

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AMD Radeon HD 7970M NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M 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 HD 7970M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1232 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (12W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M +1432%

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520M

0.142 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

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GeForce GT 520M

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Jan 2011

London

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

48

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.480 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.920 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

142.1 GFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

11.84 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

GF119

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

N12P-GV-B-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

12W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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