NVIDIA started GeForce GT 520M sales 5 January 2011 at a recommended price of $59.99 . This is a Fermi architecture notebook card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 1 GB of DDR3 memory clocked at 0.8 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 12.8 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 12 Watt.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1161
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.01
Power efficiency	4.23	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name	GF108
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	5 January 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$59.99	of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

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

Pipelines / CUDA cores	48	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	600 MHz	of 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors	585 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	12 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	4.800	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	0.1152 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	4	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	8	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GT 520M 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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GT 520M: 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	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Shared memory	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GT 520M. 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

Portable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GT 520M. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 API
Shader Model	5.1
OpenGL	4.5	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	1.1
Vulkan	N/A
CUDA	+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GT 520M. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark 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 520M 0.74

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.

GT 520M 285

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

GT 520M 502

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

GT 520M 2280

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.

GT 520M 1326

Octane Render OctaneBench

This is a special benchmark measuring graphics card performance in OctaneRender, which is a realistic GPU rendering engine by OTOY Inc., available either as a standalone program, or as a plugin for 3DS Max, Cinema 4D and many other apps. It renders four different static scenes, then compares render times with a reference GPU which is currently GeForce GTX 980. This benchmark has nothing to do with gaming and is aimed at professional 3D graphics artists.

GT 520M 4

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce GT 520M 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.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

900p	8
Full HD	12
1200p	7

Cost per frame, $

1080p

5.00

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

3−4

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	5−6
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2
Hitman 3	5−6
Horizon Zero Dawn	10−12
Red Dead Redemption 2	0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	6−7
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−35

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	5−6
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2
Hitman 3	5−6
Horizon Zero Dawn	10−12
Red Dead Redemption 2	0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	6−7
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	10−11
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−35

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	5−6
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4
Hitman 3	5−6
Horizon Zero Dawn	10−12
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	6−7
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	10−11
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−35

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

0−1

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	0−1
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	0−1
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2
Far Cry 5	1−2
Hitman 3	6−7
Horizon Zero Dawn	3−4
Watch Dogs: Legion	2−3

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

3−4

4K
High Preset

Far Cry New Dawn

0−1

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	1−2
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

2−3

Closest competitors

GeForce GT 520M's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.

GeForce 610M 101.35

Radeon HD 7450A 101.35

GeForce GT 415M 100

GeForce GT 520M 100

HD Graphics 405 98.65

GeForce GT 520MX 98.65

GeForce 9700M GTS 97.3

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GT 520M is Radeon HD 7450A, which is faster by 1% and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.