GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs GeForce GT 520 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X Advantages
Released 11 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
4816 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 520 PCI Advantages
Lower TDP (29W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+10284%
16200
GeForce GT 520 PCI
156
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Apr 2011
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
1410 MHz
Base Clock
-
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
38
SM Count
1
4864
Shading Units
48
152
TMUs
8
80
ROPs
4
152
Tensor Cores
-
38
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
133.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.620 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.480 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
155.5 GFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
12.96 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
29W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
GF119
GA104-202-A1
GPU Variant
GF119-300-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
40 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
79 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
2.1
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
