NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM vs AMD FirePro W4000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM and AMD FirePro W4000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

AMD FirePro W4000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

2.6x lower typical power consumption: 29 Watt vs 75 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt vs 75 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W4000

Around 40% higher core clock speed: 825 MHz vs 589 MHz
4.2x more texture fill rate: 39.6 GTexel / s vs 9.424 GTexel / s
8x more pipelines: 768 vs 96
4.7x better floating-point performance: 1,267 gflops vs 269.2 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
3.2x more memory clock speed: 3200 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Core clock speed	825 MHz vs 589 MHz
Texture fill rate	39.6 GTexel / s vs 9.424 GTexel / s
Pipelines	768 vs 96
Floating-point performance	1,267 gflops vs 269.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM	AMD FirePro W4000
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	GF119	Pitcairn
Launch date	20 August 2012	7 August 2012
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	589 MHz	825 MHz
Floating-point performance	269.2 gflops	1,267 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	96	768
Texture fill rate	9.424 GTexel / s	39.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	2,800 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	145 mm	183 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	8 GB / s	102.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	3200 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5