AMD FirePro W5000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

VS

AMD FirePro W5000

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

720 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5000 +712%

1.267 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520

0.156 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000

VS

GeForce GT 520

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Apr 2011

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

102.4GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

768

Shading Units

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

26.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

39.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

1267 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

79.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

29W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GF119

Pitcairn LE GL

GPU Variant

GF119-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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