NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP 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 150W)

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

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

976 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP +1114%

1.894 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

VS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 500

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x1

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

1024

8

TMUs

64

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.20 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.894 TFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

Pitcairn

-

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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