NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6790

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 6790

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 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 1 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (29W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

752 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 OEM

0.135 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790 +895%

1.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 6790

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 500

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

2

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

800

8

TMUs

40

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.356 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.44 GPixel/s

4.712 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

-

134.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1344 GFLOPS

11.22 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

29W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Barts

GF119 B1

GPU Variant

Barts LE (215-0798002)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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