ATI Radeon HD 4520 vs GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile Refresh

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameTU117BRV710
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date15 April 2020 (4 years ago)2 December 2009 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores102480
Core clock speed1380 MHz600 MHz
Boost clock speed1515 MHzno data
Number of transistors4,700 million242 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rate96.964.800
Floating-point processing power3.103 TFLOPS0.096 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs648

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6DDR2
Maximum RAM amount4 GB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz400 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/s6.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model6.54.1
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan1.2.140N/A
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 April 2020 2 December 2009
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 12 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 25 Watt

GTX 1650 Mobile Refresh has an age advantage of 10 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 358.3% more advanced lithography process.

ATI HD 4520, on the other hand, has 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile Refresh and Radeon HD 4520. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile Refresh is a notebook card while Radeon HD 4520 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile Refresh
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