NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 960 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

976 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +1446%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCI

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

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GeForce GT 520 PCI

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

48

64

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GF119

GM206-300-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

Board Design

120W

TDP

29W

300 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 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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