AMD Radeon 520

The Radeon 520 is a dedicated entry-level graphics card for laptops that was released in 2017. AMD reveals that the chip features five compute units based on the GCN architecture and 2 GB GDDR5 64-bit graphics memory. The new chip is not based on the Polaris architecture from 2016, but the old one that was introduced with the Radeon R5 M230 in 2014 and later used in the M330 and M430 / M440 / M445.

Due to the higher clock speed of up to 1030 MHz, the Radeon 520 should be slightly faster than the old Radeon R7 M445 (920 MHz, 320 shader units, GDDR5). However, the performance should be comparable, which means that demanding games like Dishonored 2, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare or XCOM 2 should not run smoothly. Less demanding games like Overwatch, Fifa 17 (with a fast CPU) or Farming Simulator 17, would run well, but using low to medium detail settings. For detailed game benchmarks, visit the pages of the previous linked card. If only DDR3 is used, the performance should be on par with the Radeon R7 M440 (1021 MHz, 320 shader units, DDR3).

Manufacturer

AMD

Radeon 500 Series

Radeon 530 (compare)	384 @ 1024 MHz	64 Bit @ 2250 MHz
Radeon 520	320 @ 1030 MHz	64 Bit @ 2250 MHz

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Pipelines

320 - unified

Core Speed

1030 MHz

Memory Speed

2250 MHz

Memory Bus Width

64 Bit

Memory Type

DDR3/GDDR5

Max. Amount of Memory

2048 MB

Shared Memory

DirectX

DirectX 12, Shader 5.0

technology

28 nm

Features

DirectX 12, Mantle, OpenGL, OpenCL 1.2, Vulkan

Date of Announcement

21.03.2017

Link to Manufacturer Page

http://www.amd.com/en/products/graphics/...

Benchmarks

3DMark - Time Spy Score 2560x1440

383 Points (4%)

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3DMark - Time Spy Graphics 2560x1440

335 Points (3%)

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3DMark - Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics Score 1280x720 offscreen

77543 Points (16%)

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3DMark - Ice Storm Extreme Graphics 1920x1080

34545 Points (5%)

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Score 1280x720

5509 Points (11%)

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3DMark - Cloud Gate Standard Graphics 1280x720

6156 Points (3%)

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3DMark - Fire Strike Score 1920x1080

954 Points (4%)

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3DMark - Fire Strike Graphics 1920x1080

1022 Points (3%)

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3DMark - Ice Storm Standard Graphics 1280x720

49247 Points (7%)

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3DMark 11 - Performance 1280x720

2055 points (7%)

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3DMark 11 - Performance GPU 1280x720

1877 points (4%)

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3600

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AMD Radeon R5 M335 -5%

AMD Radeon R7 (Carrizo) -4%

NVIDIA Quadro K2000M -4%

NVIDIA Quadro K1100M -3%

NVIDIA GeForce 920MX -3%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M -2%

NVIDIA GeForce GT 645M -2%

AMD Radeon R7 M270 -1%

Intel UHD Graphics 630 -1%

AMD Radeon 520

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 1%

AMD Radeon R7 M260 1%

AMD Radeon R7 M260X 1%

AMD Radeon R7 (Bristol Ridge) 2%

Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200 2%

AMD Radeon R7 M265 3%

AMD Radeon HD 8770M 3%

AMD Radeon HD 8550G + HD 8670M Dual Graphics 3%

NVIDIA GeForce 830M 5%

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 SLI (Desktop) 2174%

100%

3DMark Vantage
P Result 1280x1024 +

P GPU no PhysX 1280x1024 +

3DMark 05 - Standard 1024x768

11294 Points (24%)

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3DMark 06 Standard 1280x1024 +

Unigine Valley 1.0 - Extreme HD DirectX 1920x1080

4.1 fps (3%)

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Unigine Heaven 3.0 - DX 11, Normal Tessellation, High Shaders 1920x1080

12 fps (4%)

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Unigine Heaven 3.0 - OpenGL, Normal Tessellation, High Shaders 1920x1080

9.2 fps (5%)

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Unigine Heaven 2.1 - high, Tesselation (normal), DirectX11 1280x1024

16.6 fps (7%)

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Cinebench R10 Shading 32Bit +

Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64Bit +

Cinebench R15
OpenGL 64Bit +

Ref. Match 64Bit +

GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7
T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 1920x1080 +

T-Rex HD Onscreen C24Z16 +

GFXBench 3.0 - Manhattan Offscreen OGL off screen

52.9 fps (10%)

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GFXBench 3.0 - Manhattan Onscreen OGL on screen

44.7 fps (12%)

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GFXBench - Car Chase Offscreen off screen

25.6 fps (6%)

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GFXBench - Car Chase Onscreen on screen

23.8 fps (20%)

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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Room GPUs-only

184 Samples/s (3%)

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LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - Sala GPUs-only

325 Samples/s (3%)

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ComputeMark v2.1 - Normal, Score 1024x600

929 Points (4%)

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Game Benchmarks

The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailled information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.