NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 vs AMD Radeon R7 250E

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

AMD Radeon R7 250E

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250E 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)

AMD Radeon R7 250E 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

464 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250E +425%

0.819 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520

VS

Radeon R7 250E

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 500

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

512

8

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

55W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

123 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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