NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 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 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Released 4 years 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 14.40GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 +105%

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x1

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

1

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

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

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 Processor

GF119

GPU Name

G84

-

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

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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