ATI FirePro V3900 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

VS

ATI FirePro V3900

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro V3900 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FirePro V3900 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

432 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro V3900 +300%

0.624 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

FirePro V3900

VS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Feb 2012

Release Date

Apr 2011

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

480

Shading Units

48

24

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

624.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

29W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Turks

GPU Name

GF119

Turks GL

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.716 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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