NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (14.40GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

144 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (19W vs 29W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720 +96%

0.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520

VS

GeForce GT 720

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

192

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.188 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.75 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

306.0 GFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.75 GFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

19W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

GK208B

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

2.1

CUDA

3.5

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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