GeForce GTX 980MX and Radeon R7 M520 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 980MX
Radeon R7 M520
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GM204
Oland
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2016
April 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
1030 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
320
Power consumption (TDP)
148 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
122.5
20.60
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.0 GB/s
16 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12.0
CUDA
5.2
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
-