NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI

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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

80 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (29W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 250 +148%

0.387 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCI

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250

VS

GeForce GT 520 PCI

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

1

128

Shading Units

48

64

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

29W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

GF119

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

GF119-300-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

2.1

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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