NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 vs ATI Radeon HD 3730

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

ATI Radeon HD 3730

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3730 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 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (14.40GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

Lower TDP (29W vs 65W)

ATI Radeon HD 3730 's Advantages

72 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3730 +10%

0.173 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

VS

Radeon HD 3730

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Oct 2008

GeForce 500

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x1

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

12.67GB/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

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.888 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.776 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

173.3 GFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

29W

TDP

65W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

RV635

-

GPU Variant

RV635 PRO (215-0682008)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

0.378 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

135 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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