NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

ATI Radeon HD 5870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 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 1 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (29W vs 188W)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1552 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 +1643%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

VS

Radeon HD 5870

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 500

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x1

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

1600

8

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

188W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Cypress

-

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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