AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 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

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1360 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950 +1344%

2.253 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Apr 2011

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

1408

Shading Units

48

88

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

29W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GF119

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

389 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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