NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 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 365W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

432 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 490 +647%

1.166 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

VS

GeForce GTX 490

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x1

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

15

48

Shading Units

480

8

TMUs

60

4

ROPs

48

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.24 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.48 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1166 GFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

365W

200 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

GF100

-

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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