NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 405

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 and NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 405 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • 3.8x more core clock speed: 1620 MHz vs 425 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
  • 11.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 319 vs 27
  • 2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 136 vs 56
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 April 2011 vs 11 October 2004
Core clock speed 1620 MHz vs 425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 319 vs 27
PassMark - G2D Mark 136 vs 56

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 405

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
319
27
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
136
56
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 405
PassMark - G3D Mark 319 27
PassMark - G2D Mark 136 56
Geekbench - OpenCL 1277
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 2.597
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 76.214
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.239
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 5.862
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 4.574
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 545
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 903
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1455
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 545
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 903
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1455

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 405

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 Curie
Code name GF119 C61
Launch date 13 April 2011 11 October 2004
Launch price (MSRP) $59
Place in performance rating 1603 1601
Price now $59.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 7.58

Technical info

Core clock speed 1620 MHz 425 MHz
CUDA cores 48
Floating-point performance 155.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 90 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 102 °C
Pipelines 48
Texture fill rate 6.5 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 29 Watt
Transistor count 292 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA, Dual Link DVI-IHDMIVGA (optional) No outputs
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support 16x PCI-E 2.0
Height 2.7" (6.9 cm)
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCI
Length 5.7" (14.5 cm)
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.2 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB (DDR3)
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 900 MHz (DDR3)
Memory type DDR3

Technologies

CUDA