ATI Radeon 7500 LE vs 520

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking882not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.93no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code nameBanksRV200
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)14 August 2001 (23 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 cores320no data
Core clock speed1030 MHz250 MHz
Number of transistors690 million60 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt23 Watt
Texture fill rate20.601.500
Floating-point processing power0.6592 TFLOPSno data
ROPs82
TMUs206

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 x8AGP 4x
Widthno data1-slot
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 typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount2 GB64 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz175 MHz
Memory bandwidth36 GB/s5.6 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)7.0
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 14 August 2001
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 64 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 150 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 23 Watt

Radeon 520 has an age advantage of 15 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 435.7% more advanced lithography process.

ATI 7500 LE, on the other hand, has 117.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 520 and Radeon 7500 LE. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 520 is a notebook card while Radeon 7500 LE is a desktop one.


Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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