AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

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AMD Radeon R7 260X

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

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

Released 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

848 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X +1163%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

VS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

896

Shading Units

48

56

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

29W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x 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 Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

GF119

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

-

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

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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