NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600 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 FX Go5600

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 13 year(s) 10 month(s) later
3.8x more core clock speed: 1041 MHz vs 275 MHz
15.1x more texture fill rate: 16.66 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
10x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 227 vs 186
103.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1870 vs 18

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	11 January 2017 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed	1041 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate	16.66 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	227 vs 186
PassMark - G3D Mark	1870 vs 18

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

227

186

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1870

Name	NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600
PassMark - G2D Mark	227	186
PassMark - G3D Mark	1870	18
Geekbench - OpenCL	6338
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 FX Go5600
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Rankine
Code name	GM108	NV31 A1
Launch date	11 January 2017	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	951	948
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1041 MHz	275 MHz
Floating-point performance	799.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	16.66 GTexel / s	1.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt
Transistor count		80 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	AGP 8x
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.6	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	40.1 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR