Radeon HD 5490 vs GeForce GT 520
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5490 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 520 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GT 520
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5490 | | GeForce GT 520 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cedar (Cedar XTX) | vs | GF119 (GF119-300-A1) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 59 mm² | vs | 79 mm² |
| Transistors | 292 million | vs | 292 million |
| Shaders | 80 | vs | 48 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 1 |
| Core clock | 650 MHz | vs | 810 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 4 |
| TMUs | 8 | vs | 8 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5490 | | GeForce GT 520 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 500 MHz
1000 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5490 | | GeForce GT 520 | |
|---|
| TDP | 19 watts | vs | 29 watts |
| Release Date | 28 Oct 2012 | vs | 13 Apr 2011 |
Radeon HD 5490
2.60 GP/s
GeForce GT 520
1.62 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5490
5.20 GT/s
GeForce GT 520
6.48 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5490
8.00 GB/s
GeForce GT 520
14.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 5490
104.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GT 520
155.50 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better