NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile and ATI Radeon HD 4870 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile

• Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 6 month(s) later
• Around 39% higher core clock speed: 1041 MHz vs 750 MHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
• 6x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 150 Watt
• 4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
• Around 39% higher memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 3600 MHz
• 5.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 226 vs 43
• Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1899 vs 1386

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4870

• Around 80% higher texture fill rate: 30 GTexel / s vs 16.66 GTexel / s
• 2.1x more pipelines: 800 vs 384
• Around 50% better floating-point performance: 1,200.0 gflops vs 799.5 gflops
• Around 11% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3346 vs 3011
• Around 11% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3346 vs 3011

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4870

PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	226 43
PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1899 1386
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3011 3346
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3011 3346

Compare specifications (specs)