NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCI and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

2768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 PCI

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2 +3510%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCI

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Jun 2014

GeForce 500

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCI

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

512bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

2816

8

TMUs

176

4

ROPs

64

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

580W

200 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Hawaii

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

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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