GeForce GT 520 vs Radeon HD 3650
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3650 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 520 Advantages
Released 3 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Lower TDP (29W vs 65W)
Radeon HD 3650 Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
72 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 520
156
Radeon HD 3650
+11%
174
Graphics Card
Apr 2011
Release Date
Jan 2008
GeForce 500
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
3
1
SM Count
-
48
Shading Units
120
8
TMUs
8
4
ROPs
4
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
1.620 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.900 GPixel/s
6.480 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.800 GTexel/s
155.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
174.0 GFLOPS
12.96 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
29W
TDP
65W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF119
GPU Name
RV635
GF119-300-A1
GPU Variant
RV635 PRO
(215-0682008)
(215-0682008)
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.292 billion
Transistors
0.378 billion
79 mm²
Die Size
135 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
4.1