NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 vs ATI Radeon HD 3830

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

ATI Radeon HD 3830

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3830 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 late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Lower TDP (29W vs 75W)

ATI Radeon HD 3830 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (26.50GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

272 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3830 +174%

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520

VS

Radeon HD 3830

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Apr 2008

GeForce 500

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

26.50GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

320

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.69 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.69 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

427.5 GFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

75W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

RV670

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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