NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

AMD Radeon R7 260X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X 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 115W)

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

848 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X +1163%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

VS

Radeon R7 260X

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 500

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x1

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

896

8

TMUs

56

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

17.60 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

115W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Bonaire

-

GPU Variant

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

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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