NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 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 780 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock902MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

2256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780 +2564%

4.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780

VS

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 700

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

-

902 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

2304

Shading Units

48

192

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

29W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK110

GPU Name

GF119

GK110-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Kepler

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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