NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 OEM and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

2512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 OEM

0.135 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +3491%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 OEM

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 500

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

512bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

2

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

2560

8

TMUs

160

4

ROPs

64

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.356 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

4.712 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

134.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

11.22 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

275W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Hawaii

GF119 B1

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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