NVIDIA Quadro P520
VS
AMD FirePro W5170M
NVIDIA Quadro P520
VS
AMD FirePro W5170M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA Quadro P520 and AMD FirePro W5170M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

454
Place in performance rating
450
1.66
Value for money (0-100)
no data
Pascal
Architecture
GCN
no data
Code name
Tropo
Mobile workstation
Type
Mobile workstation
27 May 2019 (2 years ago)
Release date
2 October 2015 (6 years ago)
$1670
Price now
$1530
1.94
Value for money
1.01
GP108
GPU code name
Tropo
Mobile workstation
Market segment
Mobile workstation

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA Quadro P520 and AMD FirePro W5170M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

384
Pipelines
640
1303 MHz
Core clock speed
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1493 MHz
Boost Clock
925 MHz
no data
Transistor count
1,500 million
14 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
35.83
Texture fill rate
37.00
no data
Floating-point performance
1,184 gflops
384
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
1493 MHz
Boost clock speed
925 MHz
1,800 million
Number of transistors
1,500 million
18 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
no data

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA Quadro P520 and AMD FirePro W5170M.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
None
Supplementary power connectors
None
large
Laptop size
large

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 P520 and AMD FirePro W5170M can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
2 GB
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
64 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
6000 MHz
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
48.06 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 P520 and AMD FirePro W5170M, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs
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Eyefinity
+

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA Quadro P520 and AMD FirePro W5170M is the additional functionality.

+
Multi Monitor
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no data
AppAcceleration
+
no data
Enduro
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA Quadro P520 and AMD FirePro W5170M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

DirectX 12_1
DirectX
12 (11_1)
no data
OpenGL
4.6
+
Vulkan
1.2.131
no data
Shader Model
5.1
no data
OpenCL
1.2

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA Quadro P520 and AMD FirePro W5170M 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 P520 or AMD FirePro W5170M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA Quadro P520
AMD FirePro W5170M
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA Quadro P520
AMD FirePro W5170M
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA Quadro P520
AMD FirePro W5170M
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA Quadro P520
AMD FirePro W5170M
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA Quadro P520
AMD FirePro W5170M
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 P520

Finer manufacturing process technology (14 nm vs 28 nm)

Multi Monitor

Advantages of AMD FirePro W5170M

0.050000000000001% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($1530 vs $1670)

More pipelines (640 vs 384)

More memory bandwidth (72 GB/s vs 48.06 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA Quadro P520 or AMD FirePro W5170M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD FirePro W5170M .

NVIDIA Quadro P520 versus AMD FirePro W5170M performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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