AMD FireStream 9270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
752 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
Lower TDP (29W vs 160W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9270
+669%
1.2 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 520 PCI
0.156 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2008
Release Date
Apr 2011
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
1
800
Shading Units
48
40
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.620 GPixel/s
30.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.480 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1200 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
155.5 GFLOPS
240.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
12.96 GFLOPS
Board Design
160W
TDP
29W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
GF119
RV770 XT
GPU Variant
GF119-300-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
79 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
