ATI FireGL V8600 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
272 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
Lower TDP (29W vs 159W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V8600
+182%
0.44 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 520 PCI
0.156 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2007
Release Date
Apr 2011
FireGL
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
868 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR4
Memory Type
DDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
64bit
111.1GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
1
320
Shading Units
48
16
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
11.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.620 GPixel/s
11.01 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.480 GTexel/s
-
-
-
440.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
155.5 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
12.96 GFLOPS
Board Design
159W
TDP
29W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
R600
GPU Name
GF119
R600 V8600
GPU Variant
GF119-300-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.72 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
420 mm²
Die Size
79 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
