GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 sales 13 April 2011. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Fermi 2.0 architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 1 GB of DDR3 memory clocked at 0.9 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 14.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x1 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 152 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 29 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name	GF119
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	13 April 2011 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	48	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	810 MHz	of 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors	292 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	29 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	6.480	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	0.1555 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	4	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	8	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x1
Length	152 mm
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI	+

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	1.1
Vulkan	N/A
CUDA	2.1

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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