NVIDIA Quadro P520 vs AMD Radeon R9 M470

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro P520 and AMD Radeon R9 M470 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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 P520

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 45% higher core clock speed: 1303 MHz vs 900 MHz
  • Around 49% higher boost clock speed: 1493 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 497.7x more texture fill rate: 23.89 GTexel/s vs 48 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 98% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3566 vs 1804
  • Around 98% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3566 vs 1804
  • Around 37% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2295 vs 1674
  • Around 37% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2295 vs 1674
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 27 May 2019 vs 15 May 2016
Core clock speed 1303 MHz vs 900 MHz
Boost clock speed 1493 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate 23.89 GTexel/s vs 48 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3566 vs 1804
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3566 vs 1804
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2295 vs 1674
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2295 vs 1674

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M470

  • 2x more pipelines: 768 vs 384
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
  • Around 28% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 307 vs 240
  • Around 11% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2331 vs 2100
  • 6.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 47924 vs 7905
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 768 vs 384
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 307 vs 240
PassMark - G3D Mark 2331 vs 2100
Geekbench - OpenCL 47924 vs 7905

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro P520
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M470

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
240
307
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2100
2331
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
7905
47924
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3566
1804
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3566
1804
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2295
1674
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2295
1674
Name NVIDIA Quadro P520 AMD Radeon R9 M470
PassMark - G2D Mark 240 307
PassMark - G3D Mark 2100 2331
Geekbench - OpenCL 7905 47924
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3527
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3527
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3566 1804
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3566 1804
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2295 1674
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2295 1674

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro P520 AMD Radeon R9 M470

Essentials

Architecture Pascal GCN 2.0
Code name GP108 Strato
Launch date 27 May 2019 15 May 2016
Place in performance rating 760 761
Type Mobile workstation Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1493 MHz 1000 MHz
Core clock speed 1303 MHz 900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 23.89 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 11.94 GFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 764.4 GFLOPS
Pipelines 384 768
Pixel fill rate 23.89 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 23.89 GTexel/s 48 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 1800 million
Floating-point performance 1,536 gflops
Transistor count 2,080 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Height PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size large large
Supplementary power connectors None
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 40.10 GB/s 96 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz 6000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

Multi Monitor
DirectCompute 5.0