AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

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AMD Radeon R9 295X2

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 295X2 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

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

2768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 295X2 +3575%

5.733 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

VS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Apr 2014

Release Date

Apr 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

-

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

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

2816

Shading Units

48

176

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.15 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

179.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

5.733 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

716.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

29W

900 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Vesuvius

GPU Name

GF119

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

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

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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