NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 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 480 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

432 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (29W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 +762%

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

1

480

Shading Units

48

60

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

29W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GF119

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

-

Fermi

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.0

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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