AMD Radeon R7 260
VS
NVIDIA Quadro P520
AMD Radeon R7 260
VS
NVIDIA Quadro P520

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon R7 260 and NVIDIA Quadro P520. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

381
Place in performance rating
454
36.74
Value for money (0-100)
1.66
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Pascal
Bonaire
Code name
no data
Desktop
Type
Mobile workstation
17 December 2013 (7 years ago)
Release date
27 May 2019 (2 years ago)
$109
Launch price (MSRP)
no data
$159 (1.5x MSRP)
Price now
$1670
reference
Design
no data
4.76
Value for money
1.94
Bonaire
GPU code name
GP108
Desktop
Market segment
Mobile workstation

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon R7 260 and NVIDIA Quadro P520 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

768
Pipelines
384
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Core clock speed
1303 MHz
1100 MHz
Boost Clock
1493 MHz
2,080 million
Transistor count
no data
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
115 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
no data
48.00
Texture fill rate
35.83
1,536 gflops
Floating-point performance
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768
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
1100 MHz
Boost clock speed
1493 MHz
2,080 million
Number of transistors
1,800 million
115 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
18 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon R7 260 and NVIDIA Quadro P520.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
170 mm
Length
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1 x 6-pin
Supplementary power connectors
None
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Laptop size
large
PCIe 3.0
Bus support
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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 Radeon R7 260 and NVIDIA Quadro P520 can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
2 GB
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
128 Bit
Memory bus width
64 Bit
1625 MHz
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
104 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
48.06 GB/s
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Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon R7 260 and NVIDIA Quadro P520, the size and number of monitors.

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Display Connectors
No outputs
1
Eyefinity
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+
HDMI
no data
+
DisplayPort support
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Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon R7 260 and NVIDIA Quadro P520 is the additional functionality.

no data
Multi Monitor
+
-
AppAcceleration
no data
1
FreeSync
no data
-
HD3D
no data
-
PowerTune
no data
-
TrueAudio
no data
-
ZeroCore
no data
+
DDMA audio
no data
-
Enduro
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon R7 260 and NVIDIA Quadro P520. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

DirectX® 12
DirectX
DirectX 12_1
4.6
OpenGL
no data
no data
Vulkan
+
6.3
Shader Model
no data
2.0
OpenCL
no data
-
Mantle
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon R7 260 and NVIDIA Quadro P520 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 Radeon R7 260 or NVIDIA Quadro P520 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon R7 260
NVIDIA Quadro P520
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon R7 260
NVIDIA Quadro P520
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon R7 260
NVIDIA Quadro P520
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon R7 260
NVIDIA Quadro P520
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon R7 260
NVIDIA Quadro P520
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 Radeon R7 260

3.29% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($159 (1.5x MSRP) vs $1670)

More pipelines (768 vs 384)

More memory bandwidth (104 GB/s vs 48.06 GB/s)

Advantages of NVIDIA Quadro P520

Finer manufacturing process technology (14 nm vs 28 nm)

Multi Monitor

So, AMD Radeon R7 260 or NVIDIA Quadro P520?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon R7 260 .

AMD Radeon R7 260 versus NVIDIA Quadro P520 performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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