AMD Radeon R9 M485X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

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AMD Radeon R9 M485X NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 M485X 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 M485X 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

2000 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M485X +1611%

2.961 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520MX

0.173 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M485X

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GeForce GT 520MX

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

May 2011

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

48

128

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

23.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.800 GPixel/s

92.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.200 GTexel/s

2.961 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.961 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

172.8 GFLOPS

185.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

14.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

GF119

Amethyst XT

GPU Variant

N12P-GVR-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

Board Design

250W

TDP

20W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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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