GeForce GT 520 vs GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 520 Advantages
Released 3 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Lower TDP (29W vs 125W)
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 520
156
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
+115%
336
Graphics Card
Apr 2011
Release Date
Feb 2008
GeForce 500
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
1
SM Count
14
48
Shading Units
112
8
TMUs
56
4
ROPs
16
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
1.620 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
6.480 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.60 GTexel/s
155.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
336.0 GFLOPS
12.96 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
29W
TDP
125W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF119
GPU Name
G92
GF119-300-A1
GPU Variant
G92-270-A2
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.292 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
79 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
