NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

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NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8700M GT and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

16 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (12W vs 29W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8700M GT

0.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520M +77%

0.142 TFLOPS

GeForce 8700M GT

VS

GeForce GT 520M

Graphics Card

Jun 2007

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 8M

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-HE

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

1

-

Compute Units

-

32

Shading Units

48

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.480 GPixel/s

10.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.920 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

80.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

142.1 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

11.84 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GF119

NB8E-SE

GPU Variant

N12P-GV-B-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

Board Design

29W

TDP

12W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

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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