NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition 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 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

16 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (29W vs 50W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520 +73%

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

0.09 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520

VS

GeForce GT 120 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Jan 2009

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 100

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

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

4

48

Shading Units

32

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

89.60 GFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

29W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

G96C

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

121 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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