NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1190MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

720 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power +1071%

1.828 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCI

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

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GeForce GT 520 PCI

Graphics Card

Mar 2016

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

1026 MHz

Base Clock

-

1190 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

768

Shading Units

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

57.12 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

1.828 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

57.12 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

29W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GF119

GM206-251-A1

GPU Variant

GF119-300-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

228 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

5.2

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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