ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

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ATI Radeon HD 5550 NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5550 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5550 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

272 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (29W vs 39W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5550 +125%

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5550

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GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Feb 2010

Release Date

Apr 2011

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

48

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

GF119

Redwood PRO2

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Board Design

39W

TDP

29W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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