Quadro M520 and Radeon HD 8870M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Quadro M520 vs Radeon HD 8870M
Quadro M520
1943
Radeon HD 8870M
1687
Quadro M520
Radeon HD 8870M
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GM108
Venus
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Laptop
Release date
January 2017
December 2012
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
1019 MHz
775 MHz
Core clock speed
756 MHz
725 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
992.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
-
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
640
Power consumption (TDP)
25 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
16.66
31.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5012 MHz
4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
40 GB/s
72 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12
12 (11_1)
CUDA
5.0
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
3D Stereo
+
-
nView Display Management
+
-
Optimus
+
-