NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 OEM and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 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 4 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

16 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (29W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.26GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 OEM +45%

0.135 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 OEM

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Sep 2007

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

8.000GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

4

48

Shading Units

32

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.356 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

4.712 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

134.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

11.22 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

29W

TDP

75W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

G84

GF119 B1

GPU Variant

G84-400-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

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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