NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 vs AMD FirePro W8000

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

AMD FirePro W8000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 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 225W)

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1744 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520

0.156 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000 +1967%

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520

VS

FirePro W8000

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 500

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

1792

8

TMUs

112

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

28.80 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

225W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Tahiti

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

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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