NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 vs AMD Radeon 540

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

AMD Radeon 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 and 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

336 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540 +482%

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

VS

AMD Radeon 540

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 500

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x1

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

32bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

384

8

TMUs

24

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.39 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

908.5 GFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

908.5 GFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

56.78 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Lexa

-

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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