NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition 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 9600 GT Green Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.80GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (29W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition +23%

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

VS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Feb 2008

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

44.80GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

8

SM Count

1

64

Shading Units

48

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

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

G94

GPU Name

GF119

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

240 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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