NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 and 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 500W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

21712 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090 +70220%

109.7 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520

VS

GeForce RTX 5090

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

32GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR7

64bit

Memory Bus

512bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

1.52TB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

170

48

Shading Units

21760

8

TMUs

680

4

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

680

-

RT Cores

170

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

88 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

483.8 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1714 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

109.7 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

109.7 TFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.714 TFLOPS

Board Design

29W

TDP

500W

200 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

None

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

GB202

GF119-300-A1

GPU Variant

GB202-400-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

4 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

Unknown

79 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

10.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.8

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