NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 vs AMD FirePro W5100

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

AMD FirePro W5100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W5100 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 FirePro W5100 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

720 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

FirePro W5100 +815%

1.428 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

VS

FirePro W5100

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 500

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x1

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

768

8

TMUs

48

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.64 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1428 GFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

89.28 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Bonaire

-

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO GL

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

160 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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