NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 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 151W)

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1392 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition +1238%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520

VS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 500

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

18

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

1440

8

TMUs

72

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

151W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Cypress

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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