NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX and NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS 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 - 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 520MX

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • 2.4x more core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 375 MHz
  • 2.4x more pipelines: 48 vs 20
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
  • Around 60% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 285 vs 178
  • Around 79% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1639 vs 916
  • Around 79% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1639 vs 916
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 30 May 2011 vs 18 April 2006
Core clock speed 900 MHz vs 375 MHz
Pipelines 48 vs 20
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 285 vs 178
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1639 vs 916
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1639 vs 916

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS

  • Around 4% higher texture fill rate: 7.5 GTexel / s vs 7.2 billion / sec
  • Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 900 MHz
  • Around 66% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 88 vs 53
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 7.5 GTexel / s vs 7.2 billion / sec
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz vs 900 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 88 vs 53

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
285
178
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
53
88
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1639
916
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1639
916
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark 285 178
PassMark - G2D Mark 53 88
Geekbench - OpenCL 1487
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 3.315
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 122.375
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 7.629
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 15.403
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 692
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1583
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1639 916
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 692
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1583
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1639 916

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 Curie
Code name GF119 G71
Launch date 30 May 2011 18 April 2006
Place in performance rating 1569 1567
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 900 MHz 375 MHz
CUDA cores 48
Floating-point performance 172.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 48 20
Texture fill rate 7.2 billion / sec 7.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt 20 Watt
Transistor count 292 million 278 million
Boost clock speed 375 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-II
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12 API 9.0c
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s 32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 500 Bit
Memory clock speed 900 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory type DDR3 256
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus
Verde Drivers