GeForce 940A vs GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce 940A |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce 940A
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce 940A | | GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM108 () | vs | GF119 () |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 0 mm² | vs | 79 mm² |
| Transistors | unknown | vs | 292 million |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 48 |
| Compute Units | 3 | vs | 1 |
| Core clock | 1029 MHz | vs | 810 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 4 |
| TMUs | 16 | vs | 8 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce 940A | | GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1001 MHz
2002 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce 940A | | GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1 | |
|---|
| TDP | 33 watts | vs | 29 watts |
| Release Date | 13 Mar 2015 | vs | 13 Apr 2011 |
GeForce 940A
8.23 GP/s
GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1
1.62 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce 940A
16.46 GT/s
GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1
6.48 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce 940A
16.02 GB/s
GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1
14.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce 940A
790.30 GFLOPs
GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1
155.50 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better