NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 vs ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL 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 4 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

48 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (29W vs 130W)

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.16GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Score

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

VS

Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Jan 2007

GeForce 500

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x1

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

690 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

44.16GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

-

8

TMUs

12

4

ROPs

12

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.900 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.900 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

29W

TDP

130W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

RV570

-

GPU Variant

RV570 XT (215PADAKA12FG)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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