GeForce GT 520M vs GeForce 920M

GeForce GT 520M
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 5 Jan 2011
GeForce GT 520M
GeForce 920M
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce 920M

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 520M
    100%
  • GeForce 920M
    314%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 520M

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce 920M

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 214% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 920M

HWBench recommends GeForce 920M

The GeForce 920M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 520MGeForce 920M
GPU NameGF119 (N12P-GV-B-A1)vsGK208 (N16V-GM)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size79 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors292 millionvsunknown
Shaders48vs384
Compute Units1vs2
Core clock740 MHzvs954 MHz
ROPs4vs16
TMUs8vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 520MGeForce 920M
Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 520MGeForce 920M
TDP12 wattsvs33 watts
Release Date5 Jan 2011vs13 Mar 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 520M
    1.48 GP/s
  • GeForce 920M
    7.63 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 520M
    5.92 GT/s
  • GeForce 920M
    30.53 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 520M
    12.80 GB/s
  • GeForce 920M
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 520M
    142.08 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 920M
    732.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 520M
    550
  • GeForce 920M
    1730

Points (higher is better)

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