NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 OEM 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 late

Lower TDP (29W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

48 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230 OEM +53%

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520

VS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Apr 2009

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/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

6.000 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

29W

TDP

75W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

G92B

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

G92-159-B1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

260 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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