GeForce 9600 GSO 512 vs GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

GeForce 9600 GSO 512
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Oct 2008
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Apr 2011
GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 GSO 512

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1

61 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9600 GSO 512 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

HWBench recommends GeForce 9600 GSO 512

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9600 GSO 512GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1
GPU NameG94 (G94-300-A1)vsGF119 ()
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size240 mm²vs79 mm²
Transistors505 millionvs292 million
Shaders48vs48
Compute Units3vs1
Core clock650 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs24vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9600 GSO 512GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9600 GSO 512GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1
TDP90 wattsvs29 watts
Release Date23 Oct 2008vs13 Apr 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GSO 512
    10.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1
    1.62 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GSO 512
    15.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1
    6.48 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9600 GSO 512
    57.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9600 GSO 512
    156.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 520 PCIe x1
    155.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better