Radeon 520 Mobile DDR3 vs RX Vega 3

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking779not rated
Place by popularity84not in top-100
Power efficiency13.62no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code namePicassoBanks
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date6 January 2019 (5 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 cores192320
Core clock speed300 MHz1030 MHz
Boost clock speed1001 MHzno data
Number of transistors4,940 million690 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate12.0120.60
Floating-point processing power0.3844 TFLOPS0.6592 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs1220

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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 3.0 x8
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 typeSystem SharedDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared2 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data16 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

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 (12_1)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.46.5 (5.1)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.1 (1.2)
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.170

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 January 2019 18 April 2017
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 50 Watt

RX Vega 3 has an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 3 and Radeon 520 Mobile DDR3. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 3
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