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).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI

AMD FirePro M8900

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