NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 vs AMD FirePro W5000

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

AMD FirePro W5000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 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 75W)

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

720 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520

0.156 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000 +712%

1.267 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520

VS

FirePro W5000

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 500

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

768

8

TMUs

48

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

26.40 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

75W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

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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