NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 vs ATI FireGL V5600

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

ATI FireGL V5600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 and 512MB VRAM FireGL V5600 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

Released 3 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (29W vs 89W)

ATI FireGL V5600 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (35.20GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

72 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

FireGL V5600 +23%

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

VS

FireGL V5600

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Aug 2007

GeForce 500

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x1

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR4

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

35.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

120

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

29W

TDP

89W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

RV630

-

GPU Variant

RV630 GL

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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