NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 and 384MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 384GB)

Lower TDP (29W vs 84W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

48 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO +69%

0.264 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520

VS

GeForce 9600 GSO

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Apr 2008

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

384MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

12

48

Shading Units

96

8

TMUs

48

4

ROPs

12

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.40 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

29W

TDP

84W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

G92

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

324 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

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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