AMD Radeon 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce 945M
AMD Radeon 520
► remove from comparison 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).
NVIDIA GeForce 945M
► remove from comparison The NVIDIA GeForce 945M is a mid-range, DirectX 12-compatible graphics card for laptops unveiled in March 2015. It is based on Nvidia's Maxwell architecture (GM107 chip) and manufactured in 28 nm. The 945M offers 512 shaders (compared to the 640 of the GTX 950M) clocked at 928 MHz. The dedicated DDR3 graphics memory is connected with a 128 Bit bus clocked at 1000 MHz (effective 2000, 32 GB/s).
Architecture
Compared to Kepler, Maxwell has been optimized in several details to increase power efficiency. Smaller Streaming Multiprocessors (SMM) with only 128 ALUs (Kepler: 192) and an optimized scheduler should lead to better utilization of the shaders. Nvidia promises that a Maxwell SMM with 128 ALUs can offer 90 percent of the performance of a Kepler SMX with 192 ALUs. GM107 features 5 SMMs and thus 640 shader cores, 40 TMUs and 16 ROPs (128-bit interface).
Another optimization is the massively enlarged L2 cache (GM107: 2 MB). The increased size can handle some of the memory traffic to allow for a relatively narrow memory interface without significantly reducing the performance.
GM107 supports DirectX 12 with feature level 11_0 only.
Performance
The performance of the 945M is slightly worse than the GTX 950M but clearly faster than the 940M. The DDR3 variant of the GTX 950M is about 10 percent faster for example. Therefore, it is most suited for medium details of demanding games in 2015 (see below for benchmarks).
Features
GM107 integrates the sixth generation of the PureVideo HD video engine (VP6), offering a better decoding performance for H.264 and MPEG-2 videos. Of course, VP6 supports all features of previous generations (4K support, PIP, video encoding via NVENC API). Unfortunately, HDMI 2.0 is still not supported.
Power Consumption
The power consumption of the GeForce 945M should be somewhere around 40 Watt. Therefore it is most suited for bigger laptops from 14-inch and up.
| AMD Radeon 520 | NVIDIA GeForce 945M |
GeForce 900M Series | Radeon 530 | 384 @ 1.02 GHz | 64 Bit @ 2250 MHz | Radeon 520 | 320 @ 1.03 GHz | 64 Bit @ 2250 MHz |
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Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Maxwell |
Pipelines | 320 - unified | 512 - unified |
Core Speed | 1030 MHz | 928 - 1045 (Boost) MHz |
Memory Speed | 2250 MHz | 2000 MHz |
Memory Bus Width | 64 Bit | 128 Bit |
Memory Type | DDR3, GDDR5 | DDR3 |
Max. Amount of Memory | 2048 MB | 4 GB |
Shared Memory | no | no |
API | DirectX 12, Shader 5.0, OpenGL 4.5 | DirectX 12 (FL 11_0), Shader 5.0, OpenGL 4.5 |
technology | 28 nm | 28 nm |
Features | DirectX 12, Mantle, OpenGL, OpenCL 1.2, Vulkan | GPU Boost 2.0, Optimus, PhysX, CUDA, GeForce Experience |
Date of Announcement | 21.03.2017 | 12.03.2015 |
Link to Manufacturer Page | www.amd.com | |
Transistors | | 1.9 Billion |
Notebook Size | | medium sized |
Benchmarks
Performance Rating - 3DMark 11 + Fire Strike + Time Spy - Radeon 520
0.6 pt (2%)
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max:
Performance Rating - 3DMark 11 + Fire Strike + Time Spy - GeForce 945M
1.3 pt (4%)
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max:
3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy Score
min: 383 avg: 454.5 median: 454.5 (1%) max: 526 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy Graphics
min: 335 avg: 397 median: 397 (1%) max: 459 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics
77543 Points (9%)
193684 Points (22%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Graphics
34545 Points (4%)
95097 Points (12%)
3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Score
min: 5509 avg: 7240 median: 7240 (8%) max: 8971 Points
min: 7913 avg: 9643 median: 9643 (10%) max: 11373 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Graphics
min: 6156 avg: 8413 median: 8412.5 (2%) max: 10669 Points
min: 17980 avg: 19405 median: 19405 (5%) max: 20830 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Score
min: 954 avg: 1233 median: 1232.5 (2%) max: 1511 Points
min: 2434 avg: 2505 median: 2504.5 (4%) max: 2575 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Graphics
min: 1022 avg: 1319 median: 1319 (1%) max: 1616 Points
min: 2816 avg: 2850 median: 2850 (3%) max: 2884 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Graphics
49247 Points (6%)
min: 55858 avg: 85596 median: 85595.5 (10%) max: 115333 Points
3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Score
min: 2055 avg: 2232 median: 2232 (3%) max: 2409 Points
min: 2877 avg: 3451 median: 3451 (5%) max: 4025 Points
3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance GPU
min: 1877 avg: 2017 median: 2016.5 (2%) max: 2156 Points
min: 2759 avg: 3310 median: 3309.5 (3%) max: 3860 Points
3DMark Vantage
3DM Vant. Perf. total + AMD Radeon 520 3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. total
5266 Points (2%)
3DM Vant. Perf. total + NVIDIA GeForce 945M 13507 Points (4%)
3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX + AMD Radeon 520 3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX
4324 Points (2%)
3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX + NVIDIA GeForce 945M 12567 Points (7%)
3DMark 05 - 3DMark 05 - Standard
11294 Points (12%)
3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 + AMD Radeon 520 6492 Points (8%)
Model | CPU | GPU | RAM | Value |
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3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 |
HP 15-bs103ng (3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024) | i5-8250U | Radeon 520 1030 / 1000 MHz 2 GB | 8 GB | 6492 |
3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 + NVIDIA GeForce 945M 20209 Points (26%)
Unigine Valley 1.0 - Unigine Valley 1.0 DX
4.1 fps (1%)
Unigine Heaven 3.0 - Unigine Heaven 3.0 DX 11
12 fps (4%)
Unigine Heaven 3.0 - Unigine Heaven 3.0 OpenGL
9.2 fps (4%)
Unigine Heaven 2.1 - Heaven 2.1 high
16.6 fps (3%)
Cinebench R10 Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit) + AMD Radeon 520 Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit)
9124 Points (6%)
Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit) + NVIDIA GeForce 945M min: 5106 avg: 5899 median: 5899 (4%) max: 6692 Points
Cinebench R11.5 Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit + AMD Radeon 520 Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit
24.5 fps (8%)
Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit + NVIDIA GeForce 945M min: 27.2 avg: 32.6 median: 32.6 (11%) max: 38.01 fps
Cinebench R15
Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit + AMD Radeon 520 Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit
min: 29.98 avg: 35.6 median: 35.6 (2%) max: 41.13 fps
Cinebench R15 OpenGL 64 Bit + NVIDIA GeForce 945M min: 33.74 avg: 39.3 median: 39.3 (2%) max: 44.9 fps
Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit + AMD Radeon 520 Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit
98 % (98%)
Cinebench R15 OpenGL Ref. Match 64 Bit + NVIDIA GeForce 945M 99.6 % (100%)
GFXBench - GFXBench Car Chase Offscreen
25.6 fps (3%)
GFXBench 3.1 - GFXBench Manhattan ES 3.1 Offscreen
35.4 fps (1%)
GFXBench 3.0 - GFXBench 3.0 Manhattan Offscreen
52.9 fps (3%)
113.6 fps (7%)
GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7
GFXBench T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 + AMD Radeon 520 GFXBench (DX / GLBenchmark) 2.7 - GFXBench T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16
114.1 fps (1%)
GFXBench T-Rex HD Offscreen C24Z16 + NVIDIA GeForce 945M 208.5 fps (2%)
LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - LuxMark v2.0 Room GPU
184 Samples/s (1%)
439 Samples/s (2%)
LuxMark v2.0 64Bit - LuxMark v2.0 Sala GPU
325 Samples/s (1%)
733 Samples/s (1%)
ComputeMark v2.1 - ComputeMark v2.1 Result
929 Points (1%)
Average Benchmarks AMD Radeon 520 → 100% n=20
Average Benchmarks NVIDIA GeForce 945M → 197% n=20
- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation
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 detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
100%
Radeon 520:
17.8 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
9.4 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
17.3 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
8.1 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
6.6 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
22 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
10 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
7 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
102.4 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
44 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
35.7 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
32.6 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
34 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
15 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
13 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
95 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
87.3 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
38.3 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
19.6 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
46.4 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
16.6 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
9.6 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
57.1 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
22.2 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
14 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
30.1 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
11.3 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
9.2 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
26.3 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
9 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
8.7 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
40.2 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
18.5 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
8.2 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
70.8 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
47.1 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
18.3 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
7.6 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
41.9 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
33 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
14.6 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
11.6 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
5.9 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
21 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
9 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
8 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
21.6 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
36 ~ 29 fps
100%
Radeon 520:
13.5 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
20.8 ~ 17 fps
100%
Radeon 520:
7.4 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
9.8 ~ 9 fps
100%
Radeon 520:
52 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
31.9 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
13.8 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
53.3 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
244%
GeForce 945M:
130.2 fps
100%
Radeon 520:
37.3 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
305%
GeForce 945M:
113.7 fps
100%
Radeon 520:
18.8 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
349%
GeForce 945M:
65.6 fps
100%
Radeon 520:
84.5 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
45.8 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
19 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
17.9 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
175%
GeForce 945M:
51.9 fps
164%
GeForce 945M:
30.6 fps
160%
GeForce 945M:
9.3 fps
100%
Radeon 520:
119.7 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
191%
GeForce 945M:
229 fps
100%
Radeon 520:
35.9 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
274%
GeForce 945M:
98.5 fps
100%
Radeon 520:
17.6 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
299%
GeForce 945M:
52.7 fps
100%
Radeon 520:
47.8 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
82.4 ~ 65 fps
228%
GeForce 945M:
148.5 fps
100%
Radeon 520:
28.4 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
43.7 ~ 36 fps
258%
GeForce 945M:
92.9 fps
100%
Radeon 520:
23.4 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
36.3 ~ 30 fps
262%
GeForce 945M:
78.7 fps
100%
Radeon 520:
7.5 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
11.7 ~ 10 fps
264%
GeForce 945M:
26.4 fps
100%
Radeon 520:
62.3 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
374%
GeForce 945M:
233.3 fps
100%
Radeon 520:
31.8 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
370%
GeForce 945M:
117.6 fps
100%
Radeon 520:
24.2 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
12.5 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
251%
GeForce 945M:
31.4 fps
100%
Radeon 520:
65.9 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
41.5 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
33.7 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
21.6 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
77.4 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
35.1 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
22.1 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
11.1 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
44.8 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
29.4 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
19.8 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
100%
Radeon 520:
10.6 [X] HP 15-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U 1.6GHz
Radeon 520
fps
Average Gaming AMD Radeon 520 → 100%
Average Gaming 30-70 fps → 100%
Average Gaming NVIDIA GeForce 945M → 258%
Average Gaming 30-70 fps → 257%