AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
272 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 5 months late
Lower TDP (29W vs 105W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
+218%
0.497 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 520
0.156 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Apr 2011
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
802 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
51.33GB/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
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.620 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.480 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
155.5 GFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
12.96 GFLOPS
Board Design
105W
TDP
29W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
GF119
-
GPU Variant
GF119-300-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
79 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
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
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
