NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 260 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

144 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)

Lower TDP (29W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 +205%

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

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GeForce GT 520

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

448bit

Memory Bus

64bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

24

SM Count

1

-

Compute Units

-

192

Shading Units

48

64

TMUs

8

28

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GF119

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

GF119-300-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Board Design

182W

TDP

29W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

2.1

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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