NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

16 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (29W vs 47W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (22.40GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 OEM +77%

0.135 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 OEM

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

48

Shading Units

32

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.356 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

4.712 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

134.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

11.22 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

G84

GF119 B1

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

29W

TDP

47W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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