NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M vs AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395X 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 250W)
AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
2000 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 520M
0.142 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition
+2521%
3.723 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2011
Release Date
May 2015
GeForce 500M
Generation
Crystal System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1365 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
174.7GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
1
SM Count
-
48
Shading Units
2048
8
TMUs
128
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
29.09 GPixel/s
5.920 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
116.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
3.723 TFLOPS
142.1 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.723 TFLOPS
11.84 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
232.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
12W
TDP
250W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF119
GPU Name
Amethyst
N12P-GV-B-A1
GPU Variant
Amethyst XT
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.292 billion
Transistors
5 billion
79 mm²
Die Size
366 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
