GeForce GT 520: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
GeForce GT 520 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.80% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090.
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Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GT 520 sales 13 April 2011 at a recommended price of $59. This is a 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 a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 145 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 29 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce GT 520: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 1182 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 0.01 | |
| Power efficiency | 1.95 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014) | |
| GPU code name | GF119 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 13 April 2011 (14 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $59 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.
Performance to price scatter graph
Detailed specifications
GeForce GT 520's specs 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 24064 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Core clock speed | 810 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 292 million | of 153,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI300) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 29 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Maximum GPU temperature | 102 °C | |
| Texture fill rate | 6.480 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.1555 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 8 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GT 520 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).
| Bus support | 16x PCI-E 2.0 | |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Length | 145 mm | |
| Height | 2.7" (6.9 cm) | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GT 520: 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 (DDR3) | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 900 MHz (DDR3) | 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. 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 | Dual Link DVI-IHDMIVGA (optional) | |
| Multi monitor support | + | |
| HDMI | + | |
| Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
| Audio input for HDMI | Internal |
API and SDK compatibility
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 RTX 5090) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GT 520. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of 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.
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 made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.
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.
Send your test results of GeForce GT 520.
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GT 520 is Radeon HD 2900 GT, which is slower by 9% and lower by 13 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GT 520:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce GT 520 according to our statistics.
