ATI Radeon HD 3550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3550

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3550 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (14.40GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)

8 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (29W vs 30W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3550

0.048 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 +225%

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3550

VS

GeForce GT 520

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Apr 2011

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

396 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

6.336GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

40

Shading Units

48

4

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.376 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

2.376 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

47.52 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

30W

TDP

29W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DisplayPort

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV620

GPU Name

GF119

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

GPU Variant

GF119-300-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.181 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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