AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M280X

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X 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 R9 M280X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

848 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M280X +935%

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520MX

0.173 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M280X

VS

GeForce GT 520MX

Graphics Card

Feb 2015

Release Date

May 2011

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

896

Shading Units

48

56

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.800 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.200 GTexel/s

-

1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

172.8 GFLOPS

112.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

14.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

20W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GF119

Saturn XT (216-0843024)

GPU Variant

N12P-GVR-B-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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