NVIDIA GeForce GT 520: specs and benchmarks

Price now 103$

Games supported 52%

Year of release 2011

Performance 1.00

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GT 520 sales 13 April 2011 at a recommended price of $59. This is Fermi 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 1 GB (DDR3) of DDR3 memory clocked at 900 MHz (DDR3) are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 14.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 5.7" (14.5 cm). No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 29 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at

1.00%

of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.

GeForce GT 520

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

General info

Of GeForce GT 520's architecture, market segment and release date.

Place in performance rating	984
Value for money	0.04
Architecture	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name	GF119
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	13 April 2011 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$59
Price now	$103 (1.7x MSRP)	of 49999 (A100 SXM4)

Value for money

To get the index we compare the characteristics of video cards and their relative prices.

Technical specs

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

Pipelines / CUDA cores	48	of 18432 (AD102)
CUDA cores	48
Core clock speed	810 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	292 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	of 4 (H100 PCIe)
Thermal design power (TDP)	29 Watt	of 900 (Tesla S2050)
Maximum GPU temperature	102 °C
Texture fill rate	6.5 billion/sec	of 939.8 (H100 SXM5)
Floating-point performance	155.52 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on GeForce GT 520's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support	16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	5.7" (14.5 cm)
Height	2.7" (6.9 cm)
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GT 520: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB (DDR3)	of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed	900 MHz (DDR3)	of 21000 (GeForce RTX 3090 Ti)
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB/s	of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GT 520. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.

Display Connectors	Dual Link DVI-IHDMIVGA (optional)
Multi monitor support	+
HDMI	+
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI	Internal

API support

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1
OpenGL	4.2	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	1.1
Vulkan	N/A
CUDA	+

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance of GeForce GT 520. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GT 520 1.00

Passmark
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Passmark

This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

GT 520 298

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature seemingly made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic enough graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

GT 520 380

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

GT 520 1139

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of GeForce GT 520. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)	10 Mh/s
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto)	3 Mh/s

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good GeForce GT 520 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.