GeForce MX150 GP107 vs Radeon 520

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking876not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.84no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameBanksGP107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)23 February 2019 (5 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 cores320384
Core clock speed1030 MHz1469 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1532 MHz
Number of transistors690 million3,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rate20.6036.77
Floating-point processing power0.6592 TFLOPS1.177 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs2024

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 x8PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz1502 MHz
Memory bandwidth36 GB/s48.06 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 23 February 2019
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 25 Watt

MX150 GP107 has an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 520 and GeForce MX150 GP107. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon 520
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