GeForce GT 520M and GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition - video card comparison
GeForce GT 520M
GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
N12P-GP/LV
G94
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
February 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
740 / 600 MHz
600 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
129.02 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
64
Power consumption (TDP)
12 Watt
95 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.9 billion/sec
19.20
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1400 MBps
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
44.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 API
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Optimus
+
-