AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

720 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 85W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 +687%

1.229 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

GeForce GT 520

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Apr 2011

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

768

Shading Units

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

1229 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

85W

TDP

29W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF119

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

GF119-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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