NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X 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 180W)

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1232 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 OEM

0.135 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X +1891%

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 OEM

VS

Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 500

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

2

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

1280

8

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.356 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

4.712 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

-

134.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

11.22 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

180W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Curacao

GF119 B1

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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