AMD Radeon 520 vs AMD Radeon R5 330 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 520 and AMD Radeon R5 330 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 520

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 24% higher core clock speed: 1030 MHz vs 830 MHz
  • Around 20% higher boost clock speed: 1030 MHz vs 855 MHz
  • 1204.7x more texture fill rate: 20.60 GTexel/s vs 17.1 GTexel / s
  • Around 21% better floating-point performance: 660 GFLOPs vs 547.2 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
  • 2.5x more memory clock speed: 4500 MHz vs 1800 MHz
  • Around 65% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 862 vs 521
  • Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 202 vs 184
  • 5.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 26304 vs 5123
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 April 2017 vs 5 May 2015
Core clock speed 1030 MHz vs 830 MHz
Boost clock speed 1030 MHz vs 855 MHz
Texture fill rate 20.60 GTexel/s vs 17.1 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance 660 GFLOPs vs 547.2 gflops
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed 4500 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 862 vs 521
PassMark - G2D Mark 202 vs 184
Geekbench - OpenCL 26304 vs 5123

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 520
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R5 330 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
862
521
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
202
184
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
26304
5123
Name AMD Radeon 520 AMD Radeon R5 330 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark 862 521
PassMark - G2D Mark 202 184
Geekbench - OpenCL 26304 5123
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1182
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1182
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1242
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1242
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon 520 AMD Radeon R5 330 OEM

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 1.0
Code name Oland Hainan
Design Radeon 500 Series
GCN generation 1st Gen
Launch date 18 April 2017 5 May 2015
Place in performance rating 1104 1106
Type Desktop, Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1030 MHz 855 MHz
Compute units 5
Core clock speed 1030 MHz 830 MHz
Floating-point performance 660 GFLOPs 547.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 320 320
Pixel fill rate 4.10 GP/s
Render output units 4
Stream Processors 320
Texture fill rate 20.60 GTexel/s 17.1 GTexel / s
Texture Units 20
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 50 Watt
Transistor count 1,040 million 1,040 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 48 GB/s 28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 4500 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architecture
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
DualGraphics
Enduro
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
TressFX
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)