NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 SE

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCI and 128MB VRAM GeForce 8400 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (14.40GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (29W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 PCI +437%

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400 SE

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCI

VS

GeForce 8400 SE

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Aug 2008

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCI

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

128MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

2

48

Shading Units

16

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

29W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

G86S

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

127 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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