GeForce GT 520 OEM and GeForce 256 SDR - video card comparison
GeForce GT 520 OEM
GeForce 256 SDR
Architecture
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name
GF119
NV10 A3
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2012
October 1999
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
589 MHz
120 MHz
Floating-point performance
269.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
220 nm
Number of transistors
292 million
17 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
-
Power consumption (TDP)
29 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
9.424
0.48
Memory type
DDR3
SDR
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
32 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
143 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8 GB/s
1.144 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
1x VGA
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
7.0
CUDA
2.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A