RTX 5880 Ada Generation vs Radeon 520 Mobile GDDR5

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated4
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data21.93
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameBanksAD102
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)5 January 2024 (less than a 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 cores32014080
Core clock speed1030 MHz975 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2460 MHz
Number of transistors690 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt285 Watt
Texture fill rate20.601,082
Floating-point processing power0.6592 TFLOPS69.27 TFLOPS
ROPs8176
TMUs20440
Tensor Coresno data440
Ray Tracing Coresno data110

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
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-pin

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 GB48 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth36 GB/s864.0 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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent4x DisplayPort 1.4a

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 5 January 2024
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 48 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 285 Watt

520 Mobile GDDR5 has 470% lower power consumption.

RTX 5880 Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, a 2300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 520 Mobile GDDR5 and RTX 5880 Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 520 Mobile GDDR5 is a notebook card while RTX 5880 Ada Generation is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon 520 Mobile GDDR5
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