NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile vs ATI Radeon 9800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile and ATI Radeon 9800 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, 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).

NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile

ATI Radeon 9800

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 13 year(s) 10 month(s) later
3.2x more core clock speed: 1041 MHz vs 325 MHz
6.4x more texture fill rate: 16.66 GTexel / s vs 2.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 150 nm
Around 48% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 37 Watt
16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
8.6x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 580 MHz
Around 18% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 226 vs 191
32.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1899 vs 58

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	11 January 2017 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed	1041 MHz vs 325 MHz
Texture fill rate	16.66 GTexel / s vs 2.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 150 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 37 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz vs 580 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	226 vs 191
PassMark - G3D Mark	1899 vs 58

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9800

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

226

191

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1899

Name	NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile	ATI Radeon 9800
PassMark - G2D Mark	226	191
PassMark - G3D Mark	1899	58
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)

	NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile	ATI Radeon 9800
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Rage 8
Code name	GM108	R350
Launch date	11 January 2017	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	950	947
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1041 MHz	325 MHz
Floating-point performance	799.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	16.66 GTexel / s	2.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	37 Watt
Transistor count		117 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	40.1 GB / s	18.56 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz	580 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR