AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT 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 RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock2310MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

5072 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 335W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT +15060%

23.65 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

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GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Apr 2011

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

-

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

80

Compute Units

-

5120

Shading Units

48

320

TMUs

8

128

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

GF119

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GPU Variant

-

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Board Design

335W

TDP

29W

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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