AMD Radeon R7 M520 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 M520 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

AMD Radeon R7 M520

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 M520

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 11% higher core clock speed: 1030 MHz vs 924 MHz

Launch date	18 April 2017 vs 1 January 2016
Core clock speed	1030 MHz vs 924 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

3x more texture fill rate: 60.8 GTexel / s vs 20.6 GTexel / s
3.2x more pipelines: 1024 vs 320
3x better floating-point performance: 1,946 gflops vs 659.2 gflops
2.5x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Texture fill rate	60.8 GTexel / s vs 20.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1024 vs 320
Floating-point performance	1,946 gflops vs 659.2 gflops
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 M520
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

Name	AMD Radeon R7 M520	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM
Geekbench - OpenCL	17889
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		56.869
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		917.535
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.351
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		37.323
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		86.304

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R7 M520	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	Oland	GM206
Launch date	18 April 2017	1 January 2016
Place in performance rating	1182	1184
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1030 MHz	924 MHz
Floating-point performance	659.2 gflops	1,946 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	320	1024
Texture fill rate	20.6 GTexel / s	60.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	2,940 million
Boost clock speed		950 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	80.19 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	5012 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
API support
DirectX		12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL		4.6