AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

464 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 +797%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 OEM

0.135 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

VS

GeForce GT 520 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Aug 2012

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

512

Shading Units

48

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.356 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.712 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

134.6 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

11.22 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

29W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GF119

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GF119 B1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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