NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 vs ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

ATI Radeon HD 5950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 302W)

ATI Radeon HD 5950 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1392 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520

0.156 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950 +1238%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 500

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

18

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

1440

8

TMUs

72

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

29W

TDP

302W

200 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Hemlock

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

Hemlock PRO

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

334 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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