NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M vs AMD Radeon R7 M460
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 M460 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R7 M460 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1024MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (36.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
336 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 520M
0.142 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 M460
+453%
0.786 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 520M
88
Radeon R7 M460
+467%
499
Graphics Card
Jan 2011
Release Date
May 2016
GeForce 500M
Generation
Gem System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
730 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1024 MHz
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1125 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
36.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
6
1
SM Count
-
48
Shading Units
384
8
TMUs
24
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
8.192 GPixel/s
5.920 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
24.58 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
786.4 GFLOPS
142.1 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
786.4 GFLOPS
11.84 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
49.15 GFLOPS
Board Design
12W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
GF119
GPU Name
Meso
N12P-GV-B-A1
GPU Variant
Meso XT
(216-0864018)
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.292 billion
Transistors
1.55 billion
79 mm²
Die Size
125 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.170
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.5
