NVIDIA GRID K520 vs ATI Radeon HD 5850

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GRID K520 and ATI Radeon HD 5850 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID K520

• Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
• Around 3% higher core clock speed: 745 MHz vs 725 MHz
• 40.3x more texture fill rate: 2x 102.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 52.2 GTexel / s
• 2.1x more pipelines: 2x 1536 vs 1440
• 2.3x better floating-point performance: 2x 2,448 gflops vs 2,088.0 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• 8x more maximum memory size: 2x 4 GB vs 1 GB
• Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 4000 MHz
• Around 78% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3516 vs 1979
• Around 25% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 20.654 vs 16.467
• 2.1x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 3.244 vs 1.541
• Around 78% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 6782 vs 3806
• Around 78% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 6782 vs 3806

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5850

• Around 49% lower typical power consumption: 151 Watt vs 225 Watt
• 2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 402 vs 160
• 3.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 33977 vs 10864
• Around 4% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1109.612 vs 1063.784

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GRID K520
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5850

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	3516 1979
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	160 402
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	10864 33977
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	20.654 16.467
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1063.784 1109.612
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3.244 1.541
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	42.277 42.08
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	6782 3806
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3713 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3354 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	6782 3806
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3713 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3354 3358

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