NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1038MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1232 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +1771%

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520M

0.142 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

GeForce GT 520M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

-

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

1280

Shading Units

48

80

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.480 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.920 GTexel/s

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

142.1 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

11.84 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

12W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GF119

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

N12P-GV-B-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

398 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

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.1

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