Quadro T1000 Mobile vs GeForce 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 rated318
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data23.63
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGF119TU117
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date20 August 2012 (12 years ago)27 May 2019 (5 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 cores96768
Core clock speed589 MHz1395 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1455 MHz
Number of transistors292 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)29 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate9.42469.84
Floating-point processing power0.2692 TFLOPS2.235 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs1648

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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length145 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth8 GB/s128.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA2.17.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 August 2012 27 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 29 Watt 50 Watt

GT 520 OEM has 72.4% lower power consumption.

T1000 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 233.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 520 OEM and Quadro T1000 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GT 520 OEM is a desktop card while Quadro T1000 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 OEM
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