NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520M and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (12W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

240 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520M

0.142 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470M +333%

0.616 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520M

VS

GeForce GTX 470M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Sep 2010

GeForce 500M

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

1

SM Count

6

-

Compute Units

-

48

Shading Units

288

8

TMUs

48

4

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

1.480 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.420 GPixel/s

5.920 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.68 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

142.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

616.3 GFLOPS

11.84 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.36 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

GF104

N12P-GV-B-A1

GPU Variant

N11E-GT

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

12W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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