AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient vs NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient and NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1894 vs 1884
  • Around 58% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 355 vs 225
  • Around 87% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3170 vs 1692
  • Around 11% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3352 vs 3011
  • Around 87% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3170 vs 1692
  • Around 11% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3352 vs 3011
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 23 April 2018 vs 11 January 2017
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1894 vs 1884
PassMark - G2D Mark 355 vs 225
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3170 vs 1692
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3352 vs 3011
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3170 vs 1692
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3352 vs 3011

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile

  • 3.5x more core clock speed: 1041 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • Around 40% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 35 Watt
  • Around 28% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 3079 vs 2408
  • Around 28% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 3079 vs 2408
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1041 MHz vs 300 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt vs 35 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3079 vs 2408
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3079 vs 2408

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1894
1884
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
355
225
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2408
3079
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3170
1692
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3352
3011
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2408
3079
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3170
1692
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3352
3011
Name AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile
PassMark - G3D Mark 1894 1884
PassMark - G2D Mark 355 225
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 26.039
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 176.928
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.666
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 27.603
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 135.437
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2408 3079
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3170 1692
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3352 3011
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2408 3079
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3170 1692
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3352 3011
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 862
Geekbench - OpenCL 6206

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.0 Maxwell
Code name Raven GM108
Launch date 23 April 2018 11 January 2017
Place in performance rating 958 959
Type Desktop Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1100 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 1041 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt 25 Watt
Transistor count 4,940 million
Floating-point performance 799.5 gflops
Pipelines 384
Texture fill rate 16.66 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6

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