Review and testing of the AMD Radeon 520 video card: Test | Specs | CPU

Review and testing of the AMD Radeon 520 video card: Test | Specs | CPU | Config – The AMD Radeon 520 graphics card seems to be an OEM solution for use in laptops and compact PCs. As it turned out, this video card is the result of a rebranding, it is based on the first generation GCN architecture, which was used first in the Radeon R5 M230, and then in the M330 and M430 / M440 / M445.

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In our opinion, the likelihood of the appearance in retail of the video card Radeon 520 is small. Most likely, AMD will offer them to laptop manufacturers, who will rely on unintelligent buyers who prefer “at least some” card to the integrated GPU.

As a solution for laptop computers, the video card is often soldered on the motherboard, but it can also be inserted into the connector if it is provided on the laptop board. For connection, a 64-bit bus and a PCIe 3.0 x8 interface are used. AMD Radeon 520, built on the first generation of 28nm AMD GCN microarchitecture. Its GPU boasts 5 computing units (320 stream processors, 20 texture and 4 raster units) and a clock speed of 1030 MHz. Video memory is also presented in two variants of 1 and 2 GB, but in this case, both modifications will receive GDDR5 chips with a maximum effective frequency of 4.5 GHz and a bandwidth of 48 GB / s.

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Specifications

CPU
AMD Banks(GCN 1.0)
Technical process
28 n.m.
GPU frequency MHz
1030MHz
Stream Processors (Shading Units)
384
Texture Units (TMUs)
20
Raster Operations Pipelines (ROPs)
4
Memory type
DDR3-GDDR5
Memory bus width
Page 64
Memory size
2 GB
Memory frequency
2250 MHz
Power consumption (TDP)
50 watts

Synthetic tests

3DMark

3DMark Fire Strike is a beautiful and popular application with DirectX 11 API support for testing computers with high-performance gaming graphics cards in the Windows environment. 3DMark Fire Strike results help you evaluate the comparative performance of a video card and its suitability for the most demanding PC games.

3DMark – Fire Strike Graphics 1920×1080

AMD Radeon 520 (Dell Inspiron 17 3780)

1616

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NVIDIA GeForce 150 MX 1D10 (Asus VivoBook S15 S530UN)

3579

NVIDIA GeForce 150 MX 1D12 (Lenovo IdeaPad 530s )

2323

NVIDIA GeForce 940MX (Dell Inspiron 17 7778 )

1889

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M (Acer Aspire F15 F5-573G )

3556

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Acer Aspire 7 A715-71G)

6167

AMD Radeon RX 560Х(Acer Nitro 5 AN515-42)

6282

Literally FPS stands for “Frame per second”, or frames per second. Accordingly, the larger this number, the smoother the picture will be on the display during the game. How much FPS is needed for a comfortable game? It is difficult to unequivocally answer this question, if only because in different game engines with the same number of frames per second, the image quality can be different. However, there is a widespread belief that 30 FPS will be enough for a smooth game.

Due to the higher clock speed up to 1030 MHz, the gaming performance of the Radeon 520 should be better than the Radeon R7 M445 (920 MHz, 320 shaders, GDDR5). Therefore, demanding games such as Dishonored 2, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare are unlikely to be played comfortably. Less demanding games like Overwatch will run freely on minimum graphics settings and a display resolution of no higher than 1920×1080 pixels. If the video card is equipped with its own DDR3 memory, then the performance should be approximately equal to the video card for laptops Radeon R7 M440 (1021 MHz, 320 shader units, DDR3). Next, we tested the Radeon 520 in popular games at medium and low graphics settings with a display resolution of 1280×720 and 1920×1080 pixels, based on 60 frames per second (FPS).

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