AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock975MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
1488 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 's Advantages
Lower TDP (29W vs 185W)