NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520MX and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Lower TDP (20W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.80GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

80 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520MX

0.173 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280M +116%

0.374 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520MX

VS

GeForce GTX 280M

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Mar 2009

GeForce 500M

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-IV

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

60.80GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

16

48

Shading Units

128

8

TMUs

64

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.360 GPixel/s

7.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.44 GTexel/s

-

172.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

374.5 GFLOPS

14.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

G92

N12P-GVR-B-A1

GPU Variant

N10E-GTX

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

324 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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