NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (29W vs 90W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520

VS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Oct 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

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

6

48

Shading Units

48

8

TMUs

24

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

29W

TDP

90W

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

G94

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

240 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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