Quadro P520 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 560 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking419not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation5.67no data
Power efficiency14.06no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameBaffinGP108
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date5 January 2017 (7 years ago)23 May 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$99.99 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores896384
Core clock speed1175 MHz1303 MHz
Boost clock speed1275 MHz1493 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 million1,800 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)55 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate58.9735.83
Floating-point processing power1.887 TFLOPS1.147 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs5624

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth96 GB/s44 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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 January 2017 23 May 2019
Power consumption (TDP) 55 Watt 18 Watt

P520 Max-Q has an age advantage of 2 years, and 205.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 560 Mobile and Quadro P520 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 560 Mobile is a notebook graphics card while Quadro P520 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX 560 Mobile
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