NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI vs AMD Radeon R9 285X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI

AMD Radeon R9 285X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCI and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X 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 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 285X 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

2000 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 PCI

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X +2530%

4.104 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCI

VS

Radeon R9 285X

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 500

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCI

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

2048

8

TMUs

128

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.06 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.3 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.104 TFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

29W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

Tonga

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

5 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

366 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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