Radeon 520 Mobile DDR3 vs GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking27not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency40.63no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameAD104Banks
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores7424320
Core clock speed1290 MHz1030 MHz
Boost clock speed1665 MHzno data
Number of transistors35,800 million690 million
Manufacturing process technology4 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate386.320.60
Floating-point processing power24.72 TFLOPS0.6592 TFLOPS
ROPs808
TMUs23220
Tensor Cores232no data
Ray Tracing Cores58no data

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
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8

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 typeGDDR6DDR3
Maximum RAM amount12 GB2 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed2250 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth432.0 GB/s16 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.76.5 (5.1)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.02.1 (1.2)
Vulkan1.31.2.170
CUDA8.9-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 January 2023 18 April 2017
Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 4 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 50 Watt

RTX 4080 Mobile has an age advantage of 5 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 600% more advanced lithography process.

520 Mobile DDR3, on the other hand, has 120% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile and Radeon 520 Mobile DDR3. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile
GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile
AMD Radeon 520 Mobile DDR3
Radeon 520 Mobile DDR3

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