NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI vs ATI Radeon HD 5550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI

ATI Radeon HD 5550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCI and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (29W vs 39W)

ATI Radeon HD 5550 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

272 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 PCI

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5550 +125%

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCI

VS

Radeon HD 5550

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Feb 2010

GeForce 500

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCI

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

320

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

352.0 GFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

29W

TDP

39W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Redwood

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

Redwood PRO2

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

104 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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