ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI

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ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 AGP and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (52.99GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

272 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (29W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3850 AGP +174%

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCI

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 AGP

VS

GeForce GT 520 PCI

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Apr 2011

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 8x

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

828 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

52.99GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

48

16

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.69 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

10.69 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

427.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

85.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

GF119

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GPU Variant

GF119-300-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

29W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

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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