NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.80GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Lower TDP (12W vs 65W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260M +116%

0.308 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520M

0.142 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260M

VS

GeForce GT 520M

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 200M

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

950 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

60.80GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

14

SM Count

1

112

Shading Units

48

56

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.480 GPixel/s

30.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.920 GTexel/s

-

308.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

142.1 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

11.84 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

12W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

GF119

N10E-GT

GPU Variant

N12P-GV-B-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

324 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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