NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 vs AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (14.40GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

112 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (19W vs 29W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230 OEM +28%

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

VS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 500

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x1

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

160

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

29W

TDP

19W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Caicos

-

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

67 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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