GeForce GT 520M and GT215 - video card comparison

GeForce GT 520M

GT215

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GPU code name

N12P-GP/LV

GT215

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2011

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Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

None

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Core clock speed

740 / 600 MHz

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CUDA cores

48

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Floating-point performance

129.02 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

585 million

727 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

48

96

Power consumption (TDP)

12 Watt

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Texture fill rate

5.9 billion/sec

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Memory type

DDR3

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Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

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Memory bus width

64 Bit

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Memory clock speed

800 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

12.8 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

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Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

12 API

11.1 (10_1)

CUDA

+

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.1

OpenGL

4.5

3.3

Shader Model

5.1

4.1

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

Optimus

+

-

PureVideo HD

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VP4