NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 vs AMD FirePro D500

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

AMD FirePro D500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 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 274W)

AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1488 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

FirePro D500 +1327%

2.227 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

VS

FirePro D500

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 500

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x1

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1270 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

243.8GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

1536

8

TMUs

96

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

23.20 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

69.60 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.227 TFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

274W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE GL

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

352 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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