AMD Cedar
VS
NVIDIA Quadro M520
AMD Cedar
VS
NVIDIA Quadro M520

General info

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

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Place in performance rating
466
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Maxwell
Cedar
Code name
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Desktop
Type
Mobile workstation
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Release date
13 January 2017 (4 years ago)
$17.81
Price now
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Cedar
GPU code name
GM108
Desktop
Market segment
Mobile workstation

Technical specs

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

80
Pipelines
384
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Core clock speed
756 MHz
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Boost Clock
1019 MHz
292 million
Transistor count
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40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
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Power consumption (TDP)
25 Watt
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Texture fill rate
16.66
80
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
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Boost clock speed
1019 MHz
292 million
Number of transistors
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Thermal design power (TDP)
25 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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

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Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
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Supplementary power connectors
None
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Laptop size
medium sized

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 AMD Cedar and NVIDIA Quadro M520 can be seen in this section.

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

Video outputs and ports

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

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Display Connectors
No outputs

Technologies

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

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CUDA
5.0
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Optimus
+
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3D Vision Pro
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3D Stereo
+
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nView Display Management
+
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nView
+

API support

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

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12
4.4
OpenGL
4.5
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Vulkan
1.1.126
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Shader Model
5.0
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OpenCL
1.2

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Cedar and NVIDIA Quadro M520 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 AMD Cedar or NVIDIA Quadro M520 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Cedar
NVIDIA Quadro M520
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Cedar
NVIDIA Quadro M520
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Cedar
NVIDIA Quadro M520
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Cedar
NVIDIA Quadro M520
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Cedar
NVIDIA Quadro M520
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 AMD Cedar

There is no accountable advantage

Advantages of NVIDIA Quadro M520

8.56% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (384 vs 80)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

So, AMD Cedar or NVIDIA Quadro M520?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA Quadro M520 .

AMD Cedar versus NVIDIA Quadro M520 performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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