NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 vs ATI Radeon HD 4720

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

ATI Radeon HD 4720

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4720 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 55W)

ATI Radeon HD 4720 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (21.34GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

272 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4720 +146%

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520

VS

Radeon HD 4720

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Dec 2011

GeForce 500

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

21.34GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

320

8

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

29W

TDP

55W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

RV730

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

RV730 XT (215-0719047)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

0.514 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

146 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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