Quadro P520 Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking406not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency10.77no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameGP107BGP108
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date3 January 2017 (7 years ago)23 May 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores640384
Core clock speed1354 MHz1303 MHz
Boost clock speed1493 MHz1493 MHz
Number of transistors3,300 million1,800 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt18 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature97 °Cno data
Texture fill rate59.7235.83
Floating-point processing power1.911 TFLOPS1.147 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs4024

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4000 MB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed7008 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth112 GB/s44 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsDP 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVIPortable Device Dependent
Multi monitor support+no data
HDCP2.2-
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

GameStream+-
GPU Boost3.0no data
Ansel+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA+6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 January 2017 23 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 4000 MB 4 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 18 Watt

P520 Max-Q has an age advantage of 2 years, a 2.4% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 316.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile and Quadro P520 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile is a notebook graphics card while Quadro P520 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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