GeForce GT 520 vs GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 520 |
| 166 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition . |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 1777% 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
The GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 520 | | GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GF119 (GF119-300-A1) | vs | GK104 (GK104-400-A2) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 79 mm² | vs | 294 mm² |
| Transistors | 292 million | vs | 3,540 million |
| Shaders | 48 | vs | 1536 |
| Compute Units | 1 | vs | 8 |
| Core clock | 810 MHz | vs | 1006 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 8 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 520 | | GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 520 | | GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition | |
|---|
| TDP | 29 watts | vs | 195 watts |
| Release Date | 13 Apr 2011 | vs | 3 Apr 2013 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better
Points (higher is better)