NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 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 1GB)

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

720 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power +1071%

1.828 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

VS

GeForce GT 520

Graphics Card

Mar 2016

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

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

-

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

48

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

38.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

57.12 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.828 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

57.12 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

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

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 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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

3

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

6

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

7

AMD Radeon RX 580G vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 OEM

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs Intel Xe DG1 SDV

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs AMD Radeon R9 380