Radeon RX Vega 2 vs 520

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking882not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.80no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Vega (2017−2020)
GPU code nameBanksVega Raven Ridge
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)7 January 2018 (6 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 cores320128
Core clock speed1030 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1100 MHz
Number of transistors690 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate20.60no data
Floating-point processing power0.6592 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs20no 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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8no data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount2 GBno data
Memory bus width64 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1125 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth36 GB/sno data
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 data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12_1
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 7 January 2018
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 15 Watt

RX Vega 2 has an age advantage of 8 months, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 520 and Radeon RX Vega 2. We've got no test results to judge.


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