NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 and NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G 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 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • 3.6x more core clock speed: 1620 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • 4.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 317 vs 68
  • 2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 136 vs 61
  • Around 39% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1455 vs 1044
  • Around 39% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1455 vs 1044
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 April 2011 vs 15 October 2008
Core clock speed 1620 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 317 vs 68
PassMark - G2D Mark 136 vs 61
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1455 vs 1044
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1455 vs 1044

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G

  • 2.4x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 29 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 12 Watt vs 29 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
317
68
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
136
61
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1455
1044
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1455
1044
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G
PassMark - G3D Mark 317 68
PassMark - G2D Mark 136 61
Geekbench - OpenCL 1274
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 1044
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 545
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 903
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1455 1044

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 Tesla
Code name GF119 C79MX
Launch date 13 April 2011 15 October 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $59
Place in performance rating 1597 1600
Price now $59.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 7.58

Technical info

Core clock speed 1620 MHz 450 MHz
CUDA cores 48
Floating-point performance 155.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 102 °C
Pipelines 48
Texture fill rate 6.5 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 29 Watt 12 Watt
Transistor count 292 million 314 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 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 5.7" (14.5 cm)
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.2 3.3

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