AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 270X NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X 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 R9 270X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1232 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X +1891%

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 OEM

0.135 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

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GeForce GT 520 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Aug 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

48

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.356 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.712 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

134.6 GFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

11.22 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GF119

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

GF119 B1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

29W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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