AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

912 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Lower TDP (29W vs 127W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 +1002%

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 OEM

0.135 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

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GeForce GT 520 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Aug 2012

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.356 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.712 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

134.6 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

11.22 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

GF119

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

GF119 B1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Board Design

127W

TDP

29W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

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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