AMD Radeon Vega 7 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 7 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, API support, Memory, Technologies, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Vega 7

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 7

9.3x more pipelines: 448 vs 48
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 40 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB

Pipelines	448 vs 48
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 7
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1262

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Renoir	GF119
Launch date	Q1'2020	13 April 2011
Place in performance rating	1044	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	448	48
Core clock speed		810 MHz
Floating-point performance		155.52 gflops
Texture fill rate		6.48 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		29 Watt
Transistor count		292 million
Video outputs and ports
Number of simultaneous displays	3
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth		14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		1800 MHz
Memory type		DDR3
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x1
Length		152 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None