AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

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AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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 R9 290 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

2512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +3008%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

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GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Nov 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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

48

160

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GF119

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

29W

600 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 + 1x 8-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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