GeForce GT 520 vs Radeon HD 7850
Summary
GeForce GT 520
100%
Radeon HD 7850
1196%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 520 |
| 101 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7850 . |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7850 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 1096% 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7850
The Radeon HD 7850 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 520 | | Radeon HD 7850 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GF119 (GF119-300-A1) | vs | Pitcairn (Pitcairn PRO) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 79 mm² | vs | 212 mm² |
| Transistors | 292 million | vs | 2,800 million |
| Shaders | 48 | vs | 1024 |
| Compute Units | 1 | vs | 16 |
| Core clock | 810 MHz | vs | 860 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 8 | vs | 64 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 520 | | Radeon HD 7850 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 520 | | Radeon HD 7850 | |
|---|
| TDP | 29 watts | vs | 130 watts |
| Release Date | 13 Apr 2011 | vs | 5 Mar 2012 |
GeForce GT 520
1.62 GP/s
Radeon HD 7850
27.50 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 520
6.48 GT/s
Radeon HD 7850
55.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 520
14.40 GB/s
Radeon HD 7850
154.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 520
155.50 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 7850
1761.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GT 520
570
Radeon HD 7850
6820
Points (higher is better)