NVIDIA GeForce 310M
VS
AMD Radeon 520
NVIDIA GeForce 310M
VS
AMD Radeon 520

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 310M and AMD Radeon 520. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
719
GT2xx
Architecture
GCN 1.0
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Code name
Oland
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Type
Laptop
10 January 2010 (11 years ago)
Release date
21 March 2017 (4 years ago)
$163
Price now
$140
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Value for money
3.54
N11M-GE1
GPU code name
Oland
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce 310M and AMD Radeon 520 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

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Pipelines
320
606 / 625 MHz
Core clock speed
1030 MHz
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Transistor count
1,040 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
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Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
4.848
Texture fill rate
20.60
48.96 gflops
Floating-point performance
659.2 gflops
16
CUDA cores
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73
Gigaflops
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16
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
260 million
Number of transistors
1,040 million
14 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
50 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce 310M and AMD Radeon 520.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
None
Supplementary power connectors
None
PCI-E 2.0
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 NVIDIA GeForce 310M and AMD Radeon 520 can be seen in this section.

GDDR3, DDR3
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
64 Bit
Memory bus width
64 Bit
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Memory clock speed
2250 MHz
10.67 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
16 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 310M and AMD Radeon 520, the size and number of monitors.

DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
+
Multi monitor support
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2048x1536
Maximum VGA resolution
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+
HDMI
+

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce 310M and AMD Radeon 520 is the additional functionality.

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CUDA
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8.0
Power management
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce 310M and AMD Radeon 520. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
DirectX 12, Shader 5.0
3.3
OpenGL
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N/A
Vulkan
+
4.1
Shader Model
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1.1
OpenCL
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Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce 310M and AMD Radeon 520 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 GeForce 310M or AMD Radeon 520 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 310M
AMD Radeon 520
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 310M
AMD Radeon 520
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 310M
AMD Radeon 520
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 310M
AMD Radeon 520
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 310M
AMD Radeon 520
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 GeForce 310M

There is no accountable advantage

Advantages of AMD Radeon 520

2.64% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($140 vs $163)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

More memory bandwidth (16 GB/s vs 10.67 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA GeForce 310M or AMD Radeon 520?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon 520 .

NVIDIA GeForce 310M versus AMD Radeon 520 performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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