AMD Radeon R9 A375 vs NVIDIA GRID K520

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 A375 and NVIDIA GRID K520 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 A375

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 21% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 745 MHz
  • 17.6x more texture fill rate: 37.00 GTexel/s vs 2x 102.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
  • Around 45% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 232 vs 160
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2015 vs 23 July 2013
Core clock speed 900 MHz vs 745 MHz
Texture fill rate 37.00 GTexel/s vs 2x 102.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 232 vs 160

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID K520

  • 4.8x more pipelines: 2x 1536 vs 640
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 2x 4 GB vs 2 GB
  • 4.4x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)
  • 3.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3516 vs 1024
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 2x 1536 vs 640
Maximum memory size 2x 4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3516 vs 1024

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 A375
GPU 2: NVIDIA GRID K520

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
232
160
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1024
3516
Name AMD Radeon R9 A375 NVIDIA GRID K520
PassMark - G2D Mark 232 160
PassMark - G3D Mark 1024 3516
Geekbench - OpenCL 10864
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 20.654
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1063.784
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.244
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 42.277
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 76.158
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6782
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6782
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3354

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 A375 NVIDIA GRID K520

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 Kepler
Code name Venus GK104
Launch date 2015 23 July 2013
Place in performance rating 633 760
Type Laptop Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $3,599

Technical info

Boost clock speed 925 MHz
Compute units 10
Core clock speed 900 MHz 745 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 1184 GFLOPS
Pipelines 640 2x 1536
Pixel fill rate 14.80 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 37.00 GTexel/s 2x 102.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Transistor count 1500 million 3,540 million
Floating-point performance 2x 2,448 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 225 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 5.1
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 2x 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 72 GB/s 2x 160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective) 5000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5