GeForce GT 520 and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 520 vs GeForce RTX 3060
GeForce GT 520
318
GeForce RTX 3060
17598
GeForce GT 520
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GF119
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2011
January 2021
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
810 MHz
1320 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
155.52 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
292 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
29 Watt
170 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
102 °C
-
Texture fill rate
6.5 billion/sec
199.0
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB (DDR3)
12 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz (DDR3)
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-IHDMIVGA (optional)
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.6
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2