AMD Radeon HD 6930 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

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AMD Radeon HD 6930 NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6930 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 HD 6930 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1232 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 186W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6930 +1130%

1.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6930

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GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Apr 2011

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

48

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

60.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

480.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

GF119

Cayman CE (215-0807105)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Board Design

186W

TDP

29W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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