GeForce GT 520M and GeForce FX 5900 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 520M vs GeForce FX 5900
GeForce GT 520M
289
GeForce FX 5900
35
GeForce GT 520M
GeForce FX 5900
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
N12P-GP/LV
NV35
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
May 2003
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x Molex
Core clock speed
740 / 600 MHz
400 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
129.02 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
135 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
-
Power consumption (TDP)
12 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
5.9 billion/sec
3.200
Memory type
DDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
850 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
27.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 API
9.0a
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.5
1.5 (2.1)
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Optimus
+
-