Radeon R7 M520 vs Quadro P4000 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking267not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation7.88no data
Power efficiency14.17no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGP104Oland
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date11 January 2017 (7 years ago)18 April 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$819.61 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores1792320
Core clock speed1227 MHz1030 MHz
Boost clock speed1228 MHzno data
Number of transistors7,200 million1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate137.420.60
Floating-point processing power4.398 TFLOPSno data
ROPs648
TMUs11220

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
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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount8 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1502 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth192 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+
Display Port1.4no data

Supported technologies

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

Optimus+-
3D Stereo+no data
Mosaic+no data
nView Display Management+no data
Optimus+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX1212.0
Shader Model6.45.0
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.131-
CUDA6.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 January 2017 18 April 2017
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 16 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 50 Watt

P4000 Mobile has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

R7 M520, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 months, and 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro P4000 Mobile and Radeon R7 M520. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro P4000 Mobile is a mobile workstation card while Radeon R7 M520 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro P4000 Mobile
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