GeForce 9600 GSO 512 and GeForce GT 520 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
GeForce GT 520 OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
G94
GF119
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2008
August 2012
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
None
SLI options
2-way
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
589 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
156 gflops
269.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
292 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
96
Power consumption (TDP)
90 Watt
29 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
15.6 billion/sec
9.424
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
8 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVIHDTV
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A