Radeon R7 M520 vs GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGM107Oland
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date13 March 2015 (9 years ago)18 April 2017 (7 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 cores640320
Core clock speed993 MHz1030 MHz
Boost clock speed1124 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,870 million1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate44.9620.60
Floating-point processing power1.439 TFLOPSno data
ROPs168
TMUs4020

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).

InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x8
Widthno data1-slot
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 typeDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/s16 GB/s

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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12.0
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.126-
CUDA5.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 March 2015 18 April 2017
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 50 Watt

R7 M520 has an age advantage of 2 years, and 50% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition and Radeon R7 M520. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition is a notebook card while Radeon R7 M520 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
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