GeForce 8600 GTS and GeForce GT 520 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 8600 GTS vs GeForce GT 520
GeForce 8600 GTS
153
GeForce GT 520
318
GeForce 8600 GTS
GeForce GT 520
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
G84
GF119
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
April 2011
Bus support
-
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
675 MHz
810 MHz
CUDA cores
-
48
Floating-point performance
92.8 gflops
155.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
289 million
292 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
48
Power consumption (TDP)
60 Watt
29 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
102 °C
Texture fill rate
10.8 billion/sec
6.5 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
1 GB (DDR3)
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
900 MHz (DDR3)
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Dual Link DVI-IHDMIVGA (optional)
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
4.2
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A