AMD Radeon 520 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 520 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000 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).

AMD Radeon 520

NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 520

Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 2 month(s) later
2.6x more core clock speed: 1030 MHz vs 400 MHz
6437.5x more texture fill rate: 20.60 GTexel/s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 128 MB
5.6x more memory clock speed: 4500 MHz vs 800 MHz
47.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 862 vs 18
Around 38% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 202 vs 146

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 April 2017 vs 21 January 2003
Core clock speed	1030 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	20.60 GTexel/s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	862 vs 18
PassMark - G2D Mark	202 vs 146

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 520
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

862

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

202

146

Name	AMD Radeon 520	NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000
PassMark - G3D Mark	862	18
PassMark - G2D Mark	202	146
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	NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Rankine
Code name	Oland	NV30
Design	Radeon 500 Series
GCN generation	1st Gen
Launch date	18 April 2017	21 January 2003
Place in performance rating	1119	1116
Type	Desktop, Laptop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1030 MHz
Compute units	5
Core clock speed	1030 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	660 GFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	320
Pixel fill rate	4.10 GP/s
Render output units	4
Stream Processors	320
Texture fill rate	20.60 GTexel/s	3.2 GTexel / s
Texture Units	20
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	125 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	2x DVI, 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	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12	9.0a
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	1.5 (2.1)
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	48 GB/s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR2
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)