AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 vs NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 and NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D 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 RX Vega 8

NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
Around 33% higher pipelines: 512 vs 384
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	26 Oct 2017 vs 11 January 2017
Pipelines	512 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1429
PassMark - G2D Mark		226
PassMark - G3D Mark		1899
Geekbench - OpenCL		6270
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3079
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3079
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1692
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1692
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3011
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3011

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Maxwell
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GM108
Launch date	26 Oct 2017	11 January 2017
Place in performance rating	949	950
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	512	384
Core clock speed		1041 MHz
Floating-point performance		799.5 gflops
Texture fill rate		16.66 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		25 Watt
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.6
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		MXM-A (3.0)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		40.1 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		5012 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5