P104-101 vs Radeon R7 M520

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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)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameOlandGP104
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)5 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 cores3202560
Core clock speed1030 MHz1506 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1683 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattno data
Texture fill rate20.60269.3
Floating-point processing powerno data8.617 TFLOPS
ROPs864
TMUs20160

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
Lengthno data267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 8-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 typeDDR3GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1251 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/s320.3 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.012 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 5 January 2018
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 16 nm

P104-101 has an age advantage of 8 months, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 M520 and P104-101. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R7 M520 is a desktop card while P104-101 is a workstation one.


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