GeForce RTX 4090 Ti vs GT 520

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1145not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-10067
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.01no data
Power efficiency1.91no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGF119AD102
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date13 April 2011 (13 years ago)2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$59 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores4818176
Core clock speed810 MHz2325 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2565 MHz
Number of transistors292 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)29 Watt600 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature102 °Cno data
Texture fill rate6.4801,457
Floating-point processing power0.1555 TFLOPS93.24 TFLOPS
ROPs4192
TMUs8568
Tensor Coresno data568
Ray Tracing Coresno data142

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).

Bus support16x PCI-E 2.0no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length145 mm336 mm
Height2.7" (6.9 cm)no data
Width1-slot3-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 16-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 typeDDR3GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount1 GB (DDR3)24 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz (DDR3)1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s1.15 TB/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 ConnectorsDual Link DVI-IHDMIVGA (optional)1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Multi monitor support+no data
HDMI++
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data
Audio input for HDMIInternalno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.24.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA+8.9

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 1 GB (DDR3) 24 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 29 Watt 600 Watt

GT 520 has 1969% lower power consumption.

RTX 4090 Ti, on the other hand, has a 2300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 700% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 520 and GeForce RTX 4090 Ti. We've got no test results to judge.


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