Radeon RX 460 vs GeForce GT 520

Radeon RX 460
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 460
GeForce GT 520
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Apr 2011
GeForce GT 520

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon RX 460
    1417%
  • GeForce GT 520
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 460

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 1317% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 520

46 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 460 .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 460

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 460

The Radeon RX 460 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 460GeForce GT 520
GPU NameBaffin (Baffin PRO)vsGF119 (GF119-300-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs79 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvs292 million
Shaders896vs48
Compute Units14vs1
Core clock1090 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs56vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 460GeForce GT 520
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 460GeForce GT 520
TDP75 wattsvs29 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs13 Apr 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 460
    19.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 520
    1.62 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 460
    67.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 520
    6.48 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 460
    112.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 520
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 460
    2150.40 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 520
    155.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon RX 460
    8080
  • GeForce GT 520
    570

Points (higher is better)