ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 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 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1552 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (29W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 +1643%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

VS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Apr 2011

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

1600

Shading Units

48

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

228W

TDP

29W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GF119

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

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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