NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

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

Released 2 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

Lower TDP (29W vs 182W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 '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 Rev. 2 +205%

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Jul 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

GT200B

-

GPU Variant

G200-103-B3

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

470 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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