NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M vs AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition 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 80W)
AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
976 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 520M
0.142 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition
+1281%
1.962 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2011
Release Date
May 2015
GeForce 500M
Generation
Crystal System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1365 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
174.7GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
16
1
SM Count
-
48
Shading Units
1024
8
TMUs
64
4
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.480 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
30.66 GPixel/s
5.920 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
61.31 GTexel/s
-
-
-
142.1 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.962 TFLOPS
11.84 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
12W
TDP
80W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF119
GPU Name
Pitcairn
N12P-GV-B-A1
GPU Variant
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.292 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
79 mm²
Die Size
212 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
