NVIDIA started GeForce GT 520MX sales 30 May 2011. 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 0.9 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 14.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 20 Watt.

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	1120
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Value for money	2.68
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name	N12P-GVR
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	30 May 2011 (12 years old)
Current price	$2.79	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

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

Pipelines / CUDA cores	48	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
CUDA cores	48
Core clock speed	900 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)
Power consumption (TDP)	20 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	7.2 billion/sec	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	172.8 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce GT 520MX's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GT 520MX: 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 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)
Shared memory	-

Video outputs and ports

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

No outputs

Technologies

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

Optimus

API support

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

DirectX	12 API
Shader Model	5.1
OpenGL	4.5	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	1.1
Vulkan	N/A
CUDA	+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GT 520MX. 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 520MX 0.73

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. 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.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

GT 520MX 281

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.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

GT 520MX 2620

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.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

GT 520MX 597

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 520MX 1458

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.

Benchmark coverage: 4%

GT 520MX 4

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce GT 520MX 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.

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

3−4

Full HD
Medium Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	8−9
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4
Red Dead Redemption 2	3−4
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	6−7

Full HD
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	8−9
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4
Metro Exodus	1−2
Red Dead Redemption 2	3−4
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	6−7
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	3−4

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077	3−4
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	3−4

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4
Hitman 3	3−4
Horizon Zero Dawn	8−9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	4−5

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077	1−2
Far Cry 5	1−2
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	1−2

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	1−2
Hitman 3	1−2
Horizon Zero Dawn	7−8

4K
Ultra Preset

Far Cry 5	3−4
Far Cry New Dawn	5−6

Relative performance

Overall GeForce GT 520MX performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.

GeForce 610M 102.74

GeForce GT 415M 101.37

HD Graphics 500 101.37

GeForce GT 520MX 100

GeForce 9700M GTS 98.63

HD Graphics 405 98.63

GeForce GT 520M 98.63

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GT 520MX is Radeon HD 6370M, which is slower by 3% and lower by 5 positions in our ranking.