GeForce GT 520 vs Radeon HD 7730

GeForce GT 520
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Apr 2011
GeForce GT 520
Radeon HD 7730
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 May 2013
Radeon HD 7730

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 520

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7730

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7730

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7730

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 520Radeon HD 7730
GPU NameGF119 (GF119-300-A1)vsCape Verde (Cape Verde LE)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size79 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs1,500 million
Shaders48vs384
Compute Units1vs6
Core clock810 MHzvs800 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs8vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 520Radeon HD 7730
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 520Radeon HD 7730
TDP29 wattsvs47 watts
Release Date13 Apr 2011vs1 May 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 520
    1.62 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7730
    6.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 520
    6.48 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7730
    19.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 520
    14.40 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7730
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 520
    155.50 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7730
    614.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better