NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCI and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 244W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

464 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 PCI

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 +913%

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCI

VS

GeForce GTX 580

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Nov 2010

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCI

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

16

48

Shading Units

512

8

TMUs

64

4

ROPs

48

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

244W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

GF110

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

GF110-375-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

3 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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