FirePro W4150M vs GeForce GT 520 OEM

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code name	GF119	Mars
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	20 August 2012 (12 years ago)	no data (2024 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	96	384
Core clock speed	589 MHz	800 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	850 MHz
Number of transistors	292 million	950 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	29 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	9.424	20.40
Floating-point processing power	0.2692 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	4	8
TMUs	16	24

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	145 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	MXM Module
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth	8 GB/s	64 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	Portable Device Dependent
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	5.1	6.5 (5.1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.170
CUDA	2.1	-

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography

40 nm

28 nm

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