
GeForce GT 520M and GeForce GTS 150 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce GT 520M
GeForce GTS 150 OEM
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
N12P-GP/LV
G92
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
March 2009
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Core clock speed
740 / 600 MHz
738 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
129.02 gflops
470.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
128
Power consumption (TDP)
12 Watt
141 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.9 billion/sec
47.23
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
64 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
+
-