NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 vs ATI Radeon X550 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

ATI Radeon X550 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 and 128MB VRAM Radeon X550 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (14.40GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

48 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce GT 520

VS

Radeon X550 XT

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Jan 2007

GeForce 500

Generation

Radeon R300

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

300 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

128MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/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

1.600 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.600 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

29W

TDP

Unknown

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

None

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

RV410

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

R400

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

110 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

0.12 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

156 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0b (9_2)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

-

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