GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs GeForce GT 520
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1379MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.80GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
336 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (20W vs 29W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
+578%
1059
GeForce GT 520
156
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
+650%
638
GeForce GT 520
85
Graphics Card
Mar 2018
Release Date
Apr 2011
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1152 MHz
Base Clock
-
1379 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR4
Memory Type
DDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
3
SM Count
1
384
Shading Units
48
24
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
22.06 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.620 GPixel/s
33.10 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.480 GTexel/s
16.55 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1059 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
155.5 GFLOPS
33.10 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
12.96 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
29W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
GF119
GP108-310-A1
GPU Variant
GF119-300-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
74 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
6.1
CUDA
2.1
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
