GeForce GT 520 vs GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 520 Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)
Lower TDP (29W vs 171W)
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
168 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 520
156
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2
+243%
536
Graphics Card
Apr 2011
Release Date
Nov 2008
GeForce 500
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
999 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
896MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
448bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
111.9GB/s
Render Config
1
SM Count
27
48
Shading Units
216
8
TMUs
72
4
ROPs
28
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
224 KB
Theoretical Performance
1.620 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.13 GPixel/s
6.480 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
41.47 GTexel/s
155.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
536.5 GFLOPS
12.96 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
67.07 GFLOPS
Board Design
29W
TDP
171W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF119
GPU Name
GT200B
GF119-300-A1
GPU Variant
G200-103-B2
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.292 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
79 mm²
Die Size
470 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
1.3
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
