P102-100 vs Radeon R7 M520

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated526
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data3.18
Power efficiencyno data2.09
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameOlandGP102
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)12 February 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$599

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores3203200
Core clock speed1030 MHz1582 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1683 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million11,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate20.60336.6
Floating-point processing powerno data10.77 TFLOPS
ROPs880
TMUs20200

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 x4
Lengthno data267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 8-pin

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 typeDDR3GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount2 GB5 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit320 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1376 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/s440.3 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.012 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 12 February 2018
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 5 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 16 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 250 Watt

R7 M520 has 400% lower power consumption.

P102-100, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 months, a 150% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 M520 and P102-100. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R7 M520 is a desktop card while P102-100 is a workstation one.


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