NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM vs AMD Radeon 540

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

AMD Radeon 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 OEM and 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

336 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 OEM

0.135 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540 +572%

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon 540

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 500

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

32bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

2

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

384

8

TMUs

24

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.356 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

4.712 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.39 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

908.5 GFLOPS

134.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

908.5 GFLOPS

11.22 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

56.78 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Lexa

GF119 B1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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