GeForce GT 520 and GeForce 8600 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 520 vs GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce GT 520
318
GeForce 8600 GT
127
GeForce GT 520
GeForce 8600 GT
Architecture
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
GF119
G84
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2011
April 2007
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
810 MHz
540 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
155.52 gflops
76.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
292 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
32
Power consumption (TDP)
29 Watt
47 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
102 °C
-
Texture fill rate
6.5 billion/sec
8.6 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB (DDR3)
512 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz (DDR3)
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
-
256 MB
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-IHDMIVGA (optional)
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.2
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A