Radeon RX 470 vs GeForce GT 520
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 470 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1206MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
2000 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 520 's Advantages
Lower TDP (29W vs 120W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 470
+3066%
4940
GeForce GT 520
156
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 470
+4228%
3679
GeForce GT 520
85
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Apr 2011
Arctic Islands
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
926 MHz
Base Clock
-
1206 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1650 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
211.2GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
1
2048
Shading Units
48
128
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
38.59 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.620 GPixel/s
154.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.480 GTexel/s
4.940 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.940 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
155.5 GFLOPS
308.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
12.96 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
29W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
GF119
Polaris 10 PRO
(215-0876204)
GPU Variant
GF119-300-A1
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
232 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
