NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM vs AMD FireStream 9170

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

AMD FireStream 9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 OEM and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Lower TDP (29W vs 105W)

AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

272 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 OEM

0.135 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170 +268%

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 OEM

VS

FireStream 9170

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 500

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

802 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

51.33GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

2

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

320

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.356 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

4.712 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

134.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

11.22 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

105W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

RV670

GF119 B1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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