AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 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 R7 260 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

720 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260 +884%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

GeForce GT 520

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Apr 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

48

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GF119

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

GF119-300-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Board Design

95W

TDP

29W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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