NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 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 2 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (29W vs 95W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition +23%

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

VS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Dec 2008

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x1

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

8

48

Shading Units

64

8

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

29W

TDP

95W

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

G94

-

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

240 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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