NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI vs AMD Radeon HD 7850

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI

AMD Radeon HD 7850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCI and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 130W)

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

976 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 PCI

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850 +1028%

1.761 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCI

VS

Radeon HD 7850

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 500

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCI

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

1024

8

TMUs

64

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.52 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

55.04 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.761 TFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

110.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

130W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

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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