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).

NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce 800A

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 37% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 226 vs 165
3.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1881 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	226 vs 165
PassMark - G3D Mark	1881 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

226

165

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1881

477

Name	NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce 800A
PassMark - G2D Mark	226	165
PassMark - G3D Mark	1881	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	957	959
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