NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile vs AMD FirePro W4100

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile and AMD FirePro W4100 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 - 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), 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
• Around 65% higher core clock speed: 1041 MHz vs 630 MHz
• Around 24% better floating-point performance: 799.5 gflops vs 645.1 gflops
• 2x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 50 Watt
• Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 4000 MHz
• Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1870 vs 1529
• Around 15% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 6338 vs 5519
• Around 58% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 3079 vs 1951
• Around 58% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 3079 vs 1951
• Around 86% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3011 vs 1620
• Around 86% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3011 vs 1620

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W4100

• Around 21% higher texture fill rate: 20.16 GTexel / s vs 16.66 GTexel / s
• Around 33% higher pipelines: 512 vs 384
• 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 481 vs 227
• 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3399 vs 1692
• 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3399 vs 1692

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W4100

PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	227 481
PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1870 1529
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	6338 5519
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3079 1951
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3079 1951
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1692 3399
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1692 3399
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3011 1620
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3011 1620

Compare specifications (specs)