Radeon Pro 570X vs 520

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking878not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.84no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameBanksPolaris 20
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)18 March 2019 (5 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 cores3201792
Core clock speed1030 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1105 MHz
Number of transistors690 million5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rate20.60123.8
Floating-point processing power0.6592 TFLOPS3.96 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs20112

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 3.0 x16
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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz1700 MHz
Memory bandwidth36 GB/s217.6 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Radeon 520 5352
Pro 570X 28358
+430%

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.

Radeon 520 4434
Pro 570X 32246
+627%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 18 March 2019
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 120 Watt

Radeon 520 has 140% lower power consumption.

Pro 570X, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 520 and Radeon Pro 570X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 520 is a notebook graphics card while Radeon Pro 570X is a mobile workstation one.


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