GeForce GT 520 and GeForce 7900 GS AGP - video card comparison

GeForce GT 520

GeForce 7900 GS AGP

Architecture

Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

GF119

G71

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

April 2011

April 2006

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

AGP 8x

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x Molex

Core clock speed

810 MHz

450 MHz

CUDA cores

48

-

Floating-point performance

155.52 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

292 million

278 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

48

-

Power consumption (TDP)

29 Watt

-

Maximum GPU temperature

102 °C

-

Texture fill rate

6.5 billion/sec

9.000

Memory type

DDR3

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB (DDR3)

256 MB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz (DDR3)

1320 MHz

Memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

42.24 GB/s

Display Connectors

Dual Link DVI-IHDMIVGA (optional)

1x DVI, 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