AMD Radeon 520 vs ATI Radeon 9700 PRO

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 520 and ATI Radeon 9700 PRO 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 14 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • 3.2x more core clock speed: 1030 MHz vs 325 MHz
  • 7923.1x more texture fill rate: 20.60 GTexel/s vs 2.6 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 150 nm
  • 32x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 128 MB
  • 7.3x more memory clock speed: 4500 MHz vs 620 MHz
  • 16x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 864 vs 54
  • Around 36% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 202 vs 149
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 April 2017 vs 1 July 2002
Core clock speed 1030 MHz vs 325 MHz
Texture fill rate 20.60 GTexel/s vs 2.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 4500 MHz vs 620 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 864 vs 54
PassMark - G2D Mark 202 vs 149

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 520
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9700 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
864
54
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
202
149
Name AMD Radeon 520 ATI Radeon 9700 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark 864 54
PassMark - G2D Mark 202 149
Geekbench - OpenCL 26304
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 ATI Radeon 9700 PRO

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 Rage 8
Code name Oland R300
Design Radeon 500 Series
GCN generation 1st Gen
Launch date 18 April 2017 1 July 2002
Place in performance rating 1105 1103
Type Desktop, Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1030 MHz
Compute units 5
Core clock speed 1030 MHz 325 MHz
Floating-point performance 660 GFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 150 nm
Pipelines 320
Pixel fill rate 4.10 GP/s
Render output units 4
Stream Processors 320
Texture fill rate 20.60 GTexel/s 2.6 GTexel / s
Texture Units 20
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt
Transistor count 1,040 million 110 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors None Floppy

API support

DirectX 12 9.0
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 2.0
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 48 GB/s 19.84 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 4500 MHz 620 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR
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)