NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8700M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

16 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (12W vs 29W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520M +77%

0.142 TFLOPS

GeForce 8700M GT

0.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520M

VS

GeForce 8700M GT

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jun 2007

GeForce 500M

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-HE

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

1

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

48

Shading Units

32

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

1.480 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.000 GPixel/s

5.920 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

142.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

11.84 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

G84

N12P-GV-B-A1

GPU Variant

NB8E-SE

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

12W

TDP

29W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

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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