NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s).

NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later

Launch date	11 January 2017 vs 26 November 2015

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Around 13% higher core clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 1041 MHz
4.6x more texture fill rate: 76.86 GTexel / s vs 16.66 GTexel / s
2.7x more pipelines: 1024 vs 384
3.1x better floating-point performance: 2,460 gflops vs 799.5 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
Around 40% higher memory clock speed: 7012 MHz vs 5012 MHz

Core clock speed	1176 MHz vs 1041 MHz
Texture fill rate	76.86 GTexel / s vs 16.66 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1024 vs 384
Floating-point performance	2,460 gflops vs 799.5 gflops
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	7012 MHz vs 5012 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Name	NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
PassMark - G2D Mark	227
PassMark - G3D Mark	1870
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
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		76.687
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		890.785
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		28.659

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	GM108	GM206
Launch date	11 January 2017	26 November 2015
Place in performance rating	951	961
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1041 MHz	1176 MHz
Floating-point performance	799.5 gflops	2,460 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	384	1024
Texture fill rate	16.66 GTexel / s	76.86 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt
Boost clock speed		1201 MHz
Transistor count		2,940 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	40.1 GB / s	112.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz	7012 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5