NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX vs AMD Radeon E9172 MXM
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520MX and 2GB VRAM Radeon E9172 MXM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 35W)
AMD Radeon E9172 MXM 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1219MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
464 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 520MX
0.173 TFLOPS
Radeon E9172 MXM
+621%
1.248 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2011
Release Date
Oct 2017
GeForce 500M
Generation
Embedded
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1124 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1219 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
48.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
1
SM Count
-
48
Shading Units
512
8
TMUs
32
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.50 GPixel/s
7.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
39.01 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
1248 GFLOPS
172.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1248 GFLOPS
14.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
78.02 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
35W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF119
GPU Name
Lexa
N12P-GVR-B-A1
GPU Variant
E9170
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
40 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.292 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
79 mm²
Die Size
103 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
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
