NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 vs AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 and 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP 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 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

592 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP +778%

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

VS

Radeon 550X 640SP

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 500

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x1

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1019 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

640

8

TMUs

40

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

17.14 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x 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

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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