NVIDIA GeForce GT 520: specs and benchmarks

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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 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 0.79% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking1073
Value for money0.01
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameGF119
Market segmentDesktop
Release date13 April 2011 (12 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$59
Current price$88 (1.5x MSRP)of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

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 cores48of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
CUDA cores48
Core clock speed810 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors292 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology40 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)29 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Maximum GPU temperature102 °C
Texture fill rate6.5 billion/secof 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance155.52 gflopsof 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and 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 support16x PCI-E 2.0
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Length5.7" (14.5 cm)
Height2.7" (6.9 cm)
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

Memory

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 typeDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB (DDR3)of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width64 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed900 MHz (DDR3)of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)

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 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 ConnectorsDual Link DVI-IHDMIVGA (optional)
Multi monitor support+
HDMI+
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536
Audio input for HDMIInternal

API support

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

DirectX12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.1
OpenGL4.2of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/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 performance score. 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 0.79

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 520 306

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 graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

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 1268

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  

Gaming performance

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.

Relative perfomance

GeForce GT 520's performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GT 520 is Cedar, which is slower by 1% and lower by 5 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GT 520:

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 100
AMD Cedar 98.73

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Recommended processors

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