NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

AMD Radeon RX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 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 120W)

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

2000 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470 +3066%

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520

VS

Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 500

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

926 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

2048

8

TMUs

128

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

38.59 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

120W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

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

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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