AMD Radeon Pro 580X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

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AMD Radeon Pro 580X NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 580X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520MX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 580X 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1200MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (218.9GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

2256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 580X +3096%

5.53 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520MX

0.173 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 580X

VS

GeForce GT 520MX

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

May 2011

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1200 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1710 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

218.9GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

48

144

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.800 GPixel/s

172.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.200 GTexel/s

5.530 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.530 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

172.8 GFLOPS

345.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

14.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GF119

Ellesmere XTA (216-0886220)

GPU Variant

N12P-GVR-B-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

20W

-

Suggested PSU

-

2x HDMI 2.0b

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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