GeForce GT 520 vs FirePro W8000
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 520 Advantages
Lower TDP (29W vs 225W)
FirePro W8000 Advantages
Released 1 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
1744 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 520
156
FirePro W8000
+1967%
3226
Graphics Card
Apr 2011
Release Date
Jun 2012
GeForce 500
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
1
SM Count
-
48
Shading Units
1792
8
TMUs
112
4
ROPs
32
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
1.620 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
6.480 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
155.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.226 TFLOPS
12.96 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
806.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
29W
TDP
225W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
1x SDI
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF119
GPU Name
Tahiti
GF119-300-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO GL
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.292 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
79 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.1