NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition 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 9500 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
16 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (29W vs 50W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 520
+73%
0.156 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2010
Release Date
Apr 2011
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
1
32
Shading Units
48
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.620 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.480 GTexel/s
-
-
-
89.60 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
155.5 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
12.96 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
29W
250 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
G96C
GPU Name
GF119
-
GPU Variant
GF119-300-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
121 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
