GeForce GT 520 and Radeon 9600 SE - video card comparison

GeForce GT 520

Radeon 9600 SE

Architecture

Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)

Rage 8 (2002−2006)

GPU code name

GF119

RV350

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

April 2011

October 2003

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

AGP 8x

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Core clock speed

810 MHz

325 MHz

CUDA cores

48

-

Floating-point performance

155.52 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

292 million

60 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

48

-

Power consumption (TDP)

29 Watt

-

Maximum GPU temperature

102 °C

-

Texture fill rate

6.5 billion/sec

1.300

Memory type

DDR3

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB (DDR3)

64 MB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz (DDR3)

400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

3.2 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)

9.0 (9_0)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

4.2

2.0

Shader Model

5.1

-

Vulkan

N/A

N/A