AMD Radeon 520 vs NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 520 and NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL 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 Quadro4 980 XGL

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 520

Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 5 month(s) later
3.4x more core clock speed: 1030 MHz vs 300 MHz
8583.3x more texture fill rate: 20.60 GTexel/s vs 2.4 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
6.9x more memory clock speed: 4500 MHz vs 650 MHz
172x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 860 vs 5
Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 206 vs 181

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 April 2017 vs 12 November 2002
Core clock speed	1030 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate	20.60 GTexel/s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz vs 650 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	860 vs 5
PassMark - G2D Mark	206 vs 181

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 520
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

860

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

206

181

Name	AMD Radeon 520	NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL
PassMark - G3D Mark	860	5
PassMark - G2D Mark	206	181
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 Quadro4 980 XGL
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Kelvin
Code name	Oland	NV28 A2
Design	Radeon 500 Series
GCN generation	1st Gen
Launch date	18 April 2017	12 November 2002
Place in performance rating	1098	972
Type	Desktop, Laptop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1030 MHz
Compute units	5
Core clock speed	1030 MHz	300 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	2.4 GTexel / s
Texture Units	20
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	36 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	None
API support
DirectX	12	8.1
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	1.3
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	48 GB/s	10.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz	650 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)