NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI vs AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCI and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 OEM 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 50W)

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

272 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 PCI

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240 OEM +219%

0.499 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCI

VS

Radeon R7 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 500

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCI

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

730 MHz

-

Boost Clock

780 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

320

8

TMUs

20

4

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

499.2 GFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

31.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Oland

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

77 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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