GeForce GT 520 and GeForce 6600 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 520 vs GeForce 6600
GeForce GT 520
318
GeForce 6600
89
GeForce GT 520
GeForce 6600
Architecture
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
GF119
NV43 A2
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2011
August 2004
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
810 MHz
300 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
155.52 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
292 million
146 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
-
Power consumption (TDP)
29 Watt
-
Maximum GPU temperature
102 °C
-
Texture fill rate
6.5 billion/sec
2.400
Memory type
DDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB (DDR3)
256 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz (DDR3)
500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
8 GB/s
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-IHDMIVGA (optional)
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.2
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A