GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal) vs GeForce GT 520 PCI

GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)
Memory: 12288Mb GDDR5XDESKTOP
Release date: 2 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)
GeForce GT 520 PCI
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Apr 2011
GeForce GT 520 PCI
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)
    7014%
  • GeForce GT 520 PCI
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 6914% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 520 PCI

221 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal) .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)

The GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal) is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)GeForce GT 520 PCI
GPU NameGP102 (GP102)vsGF119 (GF119-300-A1)
Fab Process16 nmvs40 nm
Die Size471 mm²vs79 mm²
Transistors12,000 millionvs292 million
Shaders3584vs48
Compute Units28vs1
Core clock1417 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs96vs4
TMUs224vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)GeForce GT 520 PCI
Memory TypeGDDR5XvsDDR3
Bus Width384 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1251 MHz
10008 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size12288 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)GeForce GT 520 PCI
TDP250 wattsvs29 watts
Release Date2 Aug 2016vs13 Apr 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)
    136.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 520 PCI
    1.62 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)
    317.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 520 PCI
    6.48 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)
    480.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 520 PCI
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)
    10157.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 520 PCI
    155.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)
    39980
  • GeForce GT 520 PCI
    570

Points (higher is better)