GeForce GTX 590 and GeForce GT 520 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 590 vs GeForce GT 520
GeForce GTX 590
3441
GeForce GT 520
318
GeForce GTX 590
GeForce GT 520
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
GF110
GF119
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
April 2011
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
Two 8-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
607 MHz
810 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
48
Floating-point performance
2x 1,244.2 gflops
155.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
3,000 million
292 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
48
Power consumption (TDP)
365 Watt
29 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
97 °C
102 °C
Texture fill rate
77.7 billion/sec
6.5 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)
1 GB (DDR3)
Memory bus width
768-bit (384-bit per GPU)
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1707 MHz
900 MHz (DDR3)
Memory bandwidth
327.7 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort
Dual Link DVI-IHDMIVGA (optional)
Multi monitor support
+
+
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
Internal
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.2
4.2
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A