Radeon 520 Mobile DDR3 vs GeForce RTX 2070 Super

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	71	not rated
Place by popularity	80	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	41.47	no data
Power efficiency	15.08	no data
Architecture	Turing (2018−2022)	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code name	TU104	Banks
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	9 July 2019 (5 years ago)	18 April 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$499	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	2560	320
Core clock speed	1605 MHz	1030 MHz
Boost clock speed	1770 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	13,600 million	690 million
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	215 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	283.2	20.60
Floating-point processing power	9.062 TFLOPS	0.6592 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	8
TMUs	160	20
Tensor Cores	320	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	40	no data

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	no data

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 type	GDDR6	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	448.0 GB/s	16 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data

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 Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C	Portable Device Dependent
HDMI	+	-
G-SYNC support	+	-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready

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no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_1)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	6.5	6.5 (5.1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2.170
CUDA	7.5	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	9 July 2019	18 April 2017
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Chip lithography	12 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	215 Watt	50 Watt

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