AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

VS

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1471MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

3536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +6656%

10.54 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

GeForce GT 520

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Apr 2011

Vega

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

-

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM2

Memory Type

DDR3

2048bit

Memory Bus

64bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

56

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

3584

Shading Units

48

224

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

210W

TDP

29W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GF119

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

GF119-300-A1

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

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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