GeForce GT 520 PCI and GeForce FX 5500 PCI - video card comparison
GeForce GT 520 PCI
GeForce FX 5500 PCI
Architecture
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
GF119
NV34 B1
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2011
March 2004
Interface
PCI
PCI
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
810 MHz
270 MHz
Floating-point performance
155.52 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
292 million
45 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
-
Power consumption (TDP)
29 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
6.480
1.080
Memory type
DDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
9.0a
CUDA
2.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
1.5 (2.1)
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A