GeForce GT 520 PCI vs Radeon HD 8570 OEM

GeForce GT 520 PCI
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Apr 2011
GeForce GT 520 PCI
Radeon HD 8570 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8570 OEM
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 520 PCI
    100%
  • Radeon HD 8570 OEM
    340%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 520 PCI

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8570 OEM

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 240% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 8570 OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 8570 OEM

The Radeon HD 8570 OEM is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 520 PCIRadeon HD 8570 OEM
GPU NameGF119 (GF119-300-A1)vsOland ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size79 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders48vs320
Compute Units1vs5
Core clock810 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs8vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 520 PCIRadeon HD 8570 OEM
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 520 PCIRadeon HD 8570 OEM
TDP29 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date13 Apr 2011vs8 Jan 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 520 PCI
    1.62 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8570 OEM
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 520 PCI
    6.48 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8570 OEM
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 520 PCI
    14.40 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8570 OEM
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 520 PCI
    155.50 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8570 OEM
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 520 PCI
    570
  • Radeon HD 8570 OEM
    1940

Points (higher is better)