NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1616 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +2412%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x1

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

1664

8

TMUs

104

4

ROPs

56

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

148W

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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

398 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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