NVIDIA Quadro M520
VS
AMD FirePro M4000
NVIDIA Quadro M520
VS
AMD FirePro M4000

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA Quadro M520 and AMD FirePro M4000. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

466
Place in performance rating
524
Maxwell
Architecture
GCN
no data
Code name
Chelsea
Mobile workstation
Type
Mobile workstation
13 January 2017 (4 years ago)
Release date
1 July 2012 (9 years ago)
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Price now
$433
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Value for money
0.64
GM108
GPU code name
Cape Verde GLM
Mobile workstation
Market segment
Mobile workstation

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA Quadro M520 and AMD FirePro M4000 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

384
Pipelines
512
756 MHz
Core clock speed
600 MHz
1019 MHz
Boost Clock
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Transistor count
1,500 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
25 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
33 Watt
16.66
Texture fill rate
21.60
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Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
384
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
1019 MHz
Boost clock speed
no data
no data
Number of transistors
1,500 million
25 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
33 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA Quadro M520 and AMD FirePro M4000.

MXM-A (3.0)
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
None
Supplementary power connectors
None
medium sized
Laptop size
medium sized
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Bus support
n/a
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Form factor
MXM-A

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA Quadro M520 and AMD FirePro M4000 can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
64 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
5012 MHz
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
40 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA Quadro M520 and AMD FirePro M4000, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
No outputs
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StereoOutput3D
1

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA Quadro M520 and AMD FirePro M4000 is the additional functionality.

5.0
CUDA
no data
+
Optimus
no data
+
3D Vision Pro
no data
+
3D Stereo
no data
+
nView Display Management
no data
+
nView
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA Quadro M520 and AMD FirePro M4000. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.5
OpenGL
4.6
1.1.126
Vulkan
no data
5.0
Shader Model
no data
1.2
OpenCL
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA Quadro M520 and AMD FirePro M4000 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA Quadro M520 or AMD FirePro M4000 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA Quadro M520
AMD FirePro M4000
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA Quadro M520
AMD FirePro M4000
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA Quadro M520
AMD FirePro M4000
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA Quadro M520
AMD FirePro M4000
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA Quadro M520
AMD FirePro M4000
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA Quadro M520

Less power consumption (25 Watt vs 33 Watt)

Advantages of AMD FirePro M4000

0.11% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (512 vs 384)

More memory bandwidth (72 GB/s vs 40 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA Quadro M520 or AMD FirePro M4000?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD FirePro M4000 .

NVIDIA Quadro M520 versus AMD FirePro M4000 performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA Quadro M520
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD FirePro M4000