Quadro P520 Max-Q vs Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking586not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency27.59no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameVega RenoirGP108
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years ago)23 May 2019 (5 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 cores384384
Core clock speed400 MHz1303 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHz1493 MHz
Number of transistorsno data1,800 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rateno data35.83
Floating-point processing powerno data1.147 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data24

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 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 typeno dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data4 GB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1375 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data44 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 dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.7 (6.4)
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2020 23 May 2019
Chip lithography 7 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 18 Watt

RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) has an age advantage of 7 months, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 20% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Quadro P520 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) is a notebook graphics card while Quadro P520 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
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NVIDIA Quadro P520 Max-Q
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