NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520M and 256MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
8 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 520M
+162%
0.142 TFLOPS
Mobility Radeon HD 3470
0.054 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2011
Release Date
Jan 2008
GeForce 500M
Generation
M8x
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
6.400GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
1
SM Count
-
48
Shading Units
40
8
TMUs
4
4
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.480 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.720 GPixel/s
5.920 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.720 GTexel/s
-
-
-
142.1 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
54.40 GFLOPS
11.84 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
12W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
GF119
GPU Name
M82
N12P-GV-B-A1
GPU Variant
M82-ME XT
(216-0707009)
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.292 billion
Transistors
0.181 billion
79 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
10.1
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
