GeForce GT 520M and Quadro RTX A6000 - video card comparison
GeForce GT 520M
Quadro RTX A6000
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
N12P-GP/LV
Ampere
Market segment
Laptop
Workstation
Release date
January 2011
October 2020
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
8-pin EPS
Boost clock speed
-
1800 MHz
Core clock speed
740 / 600 MHz
1410 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
129.02 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
28,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
10752
Power consumption (TDP)
12 Watt
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.9 billion/sec
625.0
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
48 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
768.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
4x DisplayPort
DirectX
12 API
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.6
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Optimus
+
-