NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 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 950 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock1188MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

720 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 90W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 +1251%

1.825 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 OEM

0.135 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

VS

GeForce GT 520 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

-

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

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

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.356 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.712 GTexel/s

-

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

134.6 GFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

11.22 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GF119

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

GF119 B1

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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