AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 590 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

2256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 +4463%

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

VS

GeForce GT 520

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Apr 2011

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

-

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

48

144

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

GF119

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

GF119-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

29W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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