NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M vs AMD Radeon HD 8590M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8590M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon HD 8590M 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock825MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (36.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
272 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 520M
0.142 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 8590M
+271%
0.528 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2011
Release Date
Mar 2013
GeForce 500M
Generation
Solar System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
750 MHz
-
Boost Clock
825 MHz
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1125 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
36.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
5
1
SM Count
-
48
Shading Units
320
8
TMUs
20
4
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.480 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.600 GPixel/s
5.920 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
16.50 GTexel/s
-
-
-
142.1 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
528.0 GFLOPS
11.84 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
33.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
12W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
GF119
GPU Name
Sun
N12P-GV-B-A1
GPU Variant
-
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.292 billion
Transistors
0.69 billion
79 mm²
Die Size
56 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
