NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M vs AMD Radeon E8870
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520M and 4GB VRAM Radeon E8870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (12W vs 75W)
AMD Radeon E8870 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
720 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 520M
0.142 TFLOPS
Radeon E8870
+981%
1.536 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2011
Release Date
Sep 2015
GeForce 500M
Generation
Embedded
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
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-
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-
-
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800 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
1
SM Count
-
48
Shading Units
768
8
TMUs
48
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.480 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.00 GPixel/s
5.920 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
48.00 GTexel/s
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-
-
142.1 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
11.84 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
96.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
12W
TDP
75W
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-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF119
GPU Name
Saturn
N12P-GV-B-A1
GPU Variant
Saturn PRO
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.292 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
79 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.3
