NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI vs AMD FirePro M8900

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI and AMD FirePro M8900 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI

  • Around 19% higher core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 680 MHz
  • 2.6x lower typical power consumption: 29 Watt vs 75 Watt
Core clock speed 810 MHz vs 680 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 29 Watt vs 75 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro M8900

  • 5x more texture fill rate: 32.6 GTexel / s vs 6.48 GTexel / s
  • 20x more pipelines: 960 vs 48
  • 8.4x better floating-point performance: 1,305.6 gflops vs 155.52 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
  • 2x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Texture fill rate 32.6 GTexel / s vs 6.48 GTexel / s
Pipelines 960 vs 48
Floating-point performance 1,305.6 gflops vs 155.52 gflops
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 3600 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI
GPU 2: AMD FirePro M8900

Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI AMD FirePro M8900
Geekbench - OpenCL 18738
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 10.529
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 760.858
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.158
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 26.149
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 108.525

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI AMD FirePro M8900

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 TeraScale 2
Code name GF119 Blackcomb
Launch date 13 April 2011 12 April 2011
Place in performance rating not rated 1431
Type Desktop Mobile workstation

Technical info

Core clock speed 810 MHz 680 MHz
Floating-point performance 155.52 gflops 1,305.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 48 960
Texture fill rate 6.48 GTexel / s 32.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 29 Watt 75 Watt
Transistor count 292 million 1,700 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCI MXM-B (3.0)
Length 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors None None
Bus support n / a
Form factor MXM-B
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s 115 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 3600 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

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