NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (5GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.2GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1232 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +3140%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 OEM

0.135 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

GeForce GT 520 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

160bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

2

1280

Shading Units

48

80

TMUs

8

40

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.356 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.712 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

134.6 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

11.22 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

GP106

GPU Name

GF119

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

GF119 B1

Pascal

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

200 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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