NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Lower TDP (29W vs 45W)

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

72 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition +7%

0.168 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520

VS

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Feb 2008

GeForce 500

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

120

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.600 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

168.0 GFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

29W

TDP

45W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

RV630

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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