AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

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AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 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 Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

2256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +3571%

5.728 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

VS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Apr 2011

Radeon Pro GCN

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

48

144

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

39.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

179.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

5.728 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.728 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

358.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GF119

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

29W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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