NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (22.40GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

16 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (29W vs 47W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 +105%

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

GeForce GT 520

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

1

32

Shading Units

48

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

29W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GF119

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

GF119-300-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

2.1

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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