GeForce GT 520 vs GeForce GTX 760

GeForce GT 520
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Apr 2011
GeForce GT 520
GeForce GTX 760
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jun 2013
GeForce GTX 760

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 520
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 760
    1508%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 520

141 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 760 .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 760

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 1408% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 760

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 760

The GeForce GTX 760 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 520GeForce GTX 760
GPU NameGF119 (GF119-300-A1)vsGK104 (GK104-225-A2)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size79 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders48vs1152
Compute Units1vs6
Core clock810 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs4vs32
TMUs8vs96

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 520GeForce GTX 760
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 520GeForce GTX 760
TDP29 wattsvs170 watts
Release Date13 Apr 2011vs25 Jun 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 520
    1.62 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 760
    23.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 520
    6.48 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 760
    94.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 520
    14.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 760
    192.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 520
    155.50 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 760
    2258.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 520
    570
  • GeForce GTX 760
    8600

Points (higher is better)