AMD Radeon RX 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

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AMD Radeon RX 560 NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 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 560 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock1275MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

976 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 +1573%

2.611 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560

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GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Apr 2011

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

-

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

48

64

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

GF119

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

29W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

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

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