NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 800A

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce 800A 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 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 41% higher core clock speed: 1041 MHz vs 738 MHz
  • 2.8x more texture fill rate: 16.66 GTexel / s vs 5.904 GTexel / s
  • 8x more pipelines: 384 vs 48
  • 5.6x better floating-point performance: 799.5 gflops vs 141.7 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
  • 2.8x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 1800 MHz
  • Around 38% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 227 vs 165
  • 3.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1873 vs 477
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 11 January 2017 vs 17 March 2014
Core clock speed 1041 MHz vs 738 MHz
Texture fill rate 16.66 GTexel / s vs 5.904 GTexel / s
Pipelines 384 vs 48
Floating-point performance 799.5 gflops vs 141.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 227 vs 165
PassMark - G3D Mark 1873 vs 477

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 800A

  • Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 25 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 25 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 800A

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
227
165
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1873
477
Name NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce 800A
PassMark - G2D Mark 227 165
PassMark - G3D Mark 1873 477
Geekbench - OpenCL 6059
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 NVIDIA GeForce 800A

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell Fermi 2.0
Code name GM108 GF119
Launch date 11 January 2017 17 March 2014
Place in performance rating 958 960
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1041 MHz 738 MHz
Floating-point performance 799.5 gflops 141.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 384 48
Texture fill rate 16.66 GTexel / s 5.904 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt 15 Watt
Transistor count 292 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-A (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 40.1 GB / s 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3