NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 vs AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870 OEM 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 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1232 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM +1541%

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520

VS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 500

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

1280

8

TMUs

80

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

32.00 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

175W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

212 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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