NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 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 250W)

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

2256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +3571%

5.728 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520

VS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 500

Generation

Radeon Pro GCN

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

2304

8

TMUs

144

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.78 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.728 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.728 TFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

358.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

Ellesmere Gemini GL

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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