NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 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 375W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

2000 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2 +2525%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

VS

Radeon R9 280X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 500

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x1

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

950 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

2048

8

TMUs

128

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

375W

200 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

352 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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