NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 vs AMD FirePro S9170

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

AMD FirePro S9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 and 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 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 275W)

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (32GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

2768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170 +3257%

5.238 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

VS

FirePro S9170

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Jul 2015

GeForce 500

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x1

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

32GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

512bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/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

59.52 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.7 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

275W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT GL

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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