NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

16 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (29W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 +67%

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

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 x1

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

32.00GB/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

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

29W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GF119

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

-

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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