NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1104 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 +2422%

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

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GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

9

SM Count

1

1152

Shading Units

48

72

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

29W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GF119

GP104-140-KA-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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