NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 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 1080 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1733MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

2512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +6472%

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 OEM

0.135 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

GeForce GT 520 OEM

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

-

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

20

SM Count

2

2560

Shading Units

48

160

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.356 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.712 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

134.6 GFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

11.22 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

29W

450 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 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GF119

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

GF119 B1

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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