GeForce GT 140 OEM vs GT 520 OEM

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameGF119G94B
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date20 August 2012 (12 years ago)10 March 2009 (15 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 cores9664
Core clock speed589 MHz650 MHz
Number of transistors292 million505 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)29 Watt105 Watt
Texture fill rate9.42420.80
Floating-point processing power0.2692 TFLOPS0.208 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs1632

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length145 mm229 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin

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 typeDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth8 GB/s57.6 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.14.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.11.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 August 2012 10 March 2009
Chip lithography 40 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 29 Watt 105 Watt

GT 520 OEM has an age advantage of 3 years, a 37.5% more advanced lithography process, and 262.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 520 OEM and GeForce GT 140 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM
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