| Attribute | GeForce GT 520 × | Radeon R5 230 × |
|---|---|---|
| GPU | ||
| Release year (year) | 2012 | 2014 |
| Reference card | Nvidia GeForce GT 520 810 MHz 1 GB | AMD Radeon R5 230 625 MHz 1 GB |
| GPU brand | Nvidia | AMD |
| GPU name | GF108 | Caicos |
| Market | Desktop | Desktop |
| Clock speed (MHz) | 810 | 625 |
| Is dual GPU | - | - |
| Model | GeForce GT 520 | Radeon R5 230 |
| Memory | ||
| Memory (MB) | 2,048 | 2,048 |
| Memory bandwidth (GB/s) | 14.4 | 10.7 |
| Memory bus (bit) | 64 | 64 |
| Memory type | DDR3 | DDR3 |
| Memory clock speed (MHz) | 898 | 667 |
| Effective memory clock speed (MHz) | 1,796 | 1,334 |
| Noise and power | ||
| TDP (W) | 29 | 19 |
| Raw performance | ||
| Pixel rate (GPixel/s) | 1.62 | 2.5 |
| Render output processors | 2 | 4 |
| Texture mapping units | 8 | 8 |
| Shading units | 48 | 160 |
| Floating-point performance (GFLOPS) | 156 | 200 |
| Compute units | - | 2 |
| Texture rate (GTexel/s) | 6.48 | 5 |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Cloud Gate Factor | 5.08 | - |
| Face detection (mPixels/s) | 2.5 | - |
| T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) | 1559.39 | 1093.3 |
| Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) | 969.33 | 647.51 |
| Bitcoin mining (mHash/s) | 4.57 | - |
| Sky Diver Factor | 37.26 | - |
| Fire Strike Factor | 5.27 | - |
| Ocean surface simulation (frames/s) | 75 | - |