Radeon RX 5770 vs GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameGF119Navi 10
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date13 April 2011 (13 years ago)no data (2024 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores48no data
Core clock speed810 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1000 MHz
Number of transistors292 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)29 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate6.480no data
Floating-point processing power0.1555 TFLOPSno data
ROPs4no data
TMUs8no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x1PCIe 4.0 x16
Length152 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount1 GBno data
Memory bus width64 Bitno data
Memory clock speed900 MHz14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/sno data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)12.0 (12_1)
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 40 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 29 Watt 225 Watt

GT 520 PCIe x1 has 675.9% lower power consumption.

RX 5770, on the other hand, has a 471.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 and Radeon RX 5770. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1
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AMD Radeon RX 5770
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