NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME 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 RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1420MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

2256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 GME +4094%

6.543 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520

VS

Radeon RX 590 GME

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Mar 2020

GeForce 500

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1420 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/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

45.44 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

204.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.543 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.543 TFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

409.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

175W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

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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