NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 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

Lower TDP (29W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1232 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 +2704%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Jan 2018

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x1

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

10

48

Shading Units

1280

8

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

48

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

120W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

GP106

-

GPU Variant

GP106-400-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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