RTX 2000 Max-Q Ada Generation vs Radeon 520 OEM

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
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameBanksAD107
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)21 March 2023 (1 year 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 cores3203072
Core clock speed1030 MHz930 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1455 MHz
Number of transistors690 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate20.60139.7
Floating-point processing power0.6592 TFLOPS8.94 TFLOPS
ROPs848
TMUs2096
Tensor Coresno data96
Ray Tracing Coresno data24

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
WidthIGPno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB8 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth36 GB/s256.0 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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.5 (5.1)6.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.1 (1.2)3.0
Vulkan1.2.1701.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 35 Watt

RTX 2000 Max-Q Ada Generation has an age advantage of 5 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 460% more advanced lithography process, and 42.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 520 OEM and RTX 2000 Max-Q Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 520 OEM is a desktop card while RTX 2000 Max-Q Ada Generation is a mobile workstation one.


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