NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile vs NVIDIA Quadro4 900 XGL

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile and NVIDIA Quadro4 900 XGL 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 Quadro4 900 XGL

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 10 month(s) later
3.5x more core clock speed: 1041 MHz vs 300 MHz
6.9x more texture fill rate: 16.66 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 150 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
7.7x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 650 MHz
Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 226 vs 194
379.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1899 vs 5

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	11 January 2017 vs 19 February 2002
Core clock speed	1041 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate	16.66 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz vs 650 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	226 vs 194
PassMark - G3D Mark	1899 vs 5

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro4 900 XGL

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

226

194

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1899

Name	NVIDIA Quadro M520 Mobile	NVIDIA Quadro4 900 XGL
PassMark - G2D Mark	226	194
PassMark - G3D Mark	1899	5
Geekbench - OpenCL	6270
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 Quadro4 900 XGL
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Kelvin
Code name	GM108	NV25 A2
Launch date	11 January 2017	19 February 2002
Place in performance rating	950	948
Type	Workstation	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	1041 MHz	300 MHz
Floating-point performance	799.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	16.66 GTexel / s	2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt
Transistor count		63 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	8.1
OpenGL	4.6	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	40.1 GB / s	10.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz	650 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR