NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 vs ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

ATI Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1600 PRO AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (14.40GB/s vs 12.48GB/s)

48 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (29W vs 41W)

Score

GeForce GT 520

VS

Radeon X1600 PRO AGP

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Oct 2007

GeForce 500

Generation

Radeon R500 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

390 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

12.48GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

-

8

TMUs

4

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

29W

TDP

41W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

Floppy

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

RV530

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

RV530 PRO (215CADAKA24FG)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

90 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

0.157 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

150 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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