NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

Lower TDP (29W vs 182W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

144 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 +205%

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x1

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

896MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

448bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

24

48

Shading Units

192

8

TMUs

64

4

ROPs

28

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

182W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

GT200

-

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

576 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

1.3

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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