GeForce 940A vs GeForce GT 520

GeForce 940A
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce 940A
GeForce GT 520
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Apr 2011
GeForce GT 520

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 940A
    429%
  • GeForce GT 520
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 940A

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 329% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce 940A

HWBench recommends GeForce 940A

The GeForce 940A is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 940AGeForce GT 520
GPU NameGM108 (N16S-GT-S)vsGF119 (GF119-300-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs79 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs292 million
Shaders384vs48
Compute Units3vs1
Core clock1029 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs8vs4
TMUs16vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce 940AGeForce GT 520
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1001 MHz
2002 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 940AGeForce GT 520
TDP33 wattsvs29 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs13 Apr 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 940A
    8.23 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 520
    1.62 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 940A
    16.46 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 520
    6.48 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 940A
    16.02 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 520
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 940A
    790.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 520
    155.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 940A
    2450
  • GeForce GT 520
    570

Points (higher is better)