GeForce FX 5700 LE vs GT 520 PCI

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameGF119NV36
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date13 April 2011 (13 years ago)1 March 2004 (20 years ago)

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 cores48no data
Core clock speed810 MHz250 MHz
Number of transistors292 million82 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)29 Wattno data
Texture fill rate6.4801.000
Floating-point processing power0.1555 TFLOPSno data
ROPs44
TMUs84

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).

InterfacePCIAGP 8x
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB128 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz200 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s3.2 GB/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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)9.0a
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.5 (2.1)
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 April 2011 1 March 2004
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 130 nm

GT 520 PCI has an age advantage of 7 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 225% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 520 PCI and GeForce FX 5700 LE. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI
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