Radeon HD 8570 OEM vs 520

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking927not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.86no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameBanksOland
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date18 April 2017 (8 years ago)8 January 2013 (12 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 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speedno data780 MHz
Number of transistors690 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate20.6018.72
Floating-point processing power0.6592 TFLOPS0.599 TFLOPS
ROPs88
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 x8
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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth36 GB/s28.8 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

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

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 8 January 2013

Radeon 520 has an age advantage of 4 years.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 520 and Radeon HD 8570 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 520 is a notebook graphics card while Radeon HD 8570 OEM is a desktop one.

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