ATI Radeon HD 3550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3550 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI '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 PCI
+225%
0.156 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2008
Release Date
Apr 2011
Radeon R600
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
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
