NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 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 90W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

720 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 +1069%

1.825 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

VS

GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Aug 2015

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x1

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1024 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

768

8

TMUs

48

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

90W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 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

GM206

-

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

228 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

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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