NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520MX and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1038MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1232 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520MX

0.173 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M +1435%

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520MX

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce 500M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

924 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

1280

8

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

48

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

7.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

-

172.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

14.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

GM204

N12P-GVR-B-A1

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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