Radeon 520 Mobile GDDR5 vs R5 M435

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking874not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameJetBanks
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 May 2016 (8 years ago)18 April 2017 (7 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 cores320320
Core clock speed780 MHz1030 MHz
Boost clock speed1030 MHzno data
Number of transistors690 million690 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data50 Watt
Texture fill rate20.6020.60
Floating-point processing power0.6592 TFLOPS0.6592 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs2020

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 x8

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 GB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz1125 MHz
Memory bandwidth36 GB/s36 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 (11_1)
Shader Model5.16.5 (5.1)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.1 (1.2)
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.170

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 May 2016 18 April 2017

520 Mobile GDDR5 has an age advantage of 11 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 M435 and Radeon 520 Mobile GDDR5. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R5 M435
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