NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 vs AMD Radeon RX 560X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

AMD Radeon RX 560X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560X 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 75W)

AMD Radeon RX 560X 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

Boost Clock1275MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

976 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560X +1573%

2.611 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520

VS

Radeon RX 560X

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 500

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1175 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

1024

8

TMUs

64

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.40 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

75W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Polaris 21

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

3 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

123 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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