Quadro P520 Max-Q: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started Quadro P520 Max-Q sales 23 May 2019. This is a Pascal architecture notebook card based on 14 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.38 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 44 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 18 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Quadro P520 Max-Q: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Pascal (2016−2021) | |
| GPU code name | GP108 | |
| Market segment | Mobile workstation | |
| Release date | 23 May 2019 (5 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Quadro P520 Max-Q's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Quadro P520 Max-Q's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 384 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 1303 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 1493 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 1,800 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 18 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 35.83 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 1.147 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 24 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Quadro P520 Max-Q and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Quadro P520 Max-Q: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1375 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 44 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Quadro P520 Max-Q. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | Portable Device Dependent |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Quadro P520 Max-Q, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | |
| Shader Model | 6.7 (6.4) | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | |
| CUDA | 6.1 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Quadro P520 Max-Q is FirePro W5170M.
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