NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 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) 0 month(s) later
  • 2x more core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
  • 4x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 80 Watt
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
  • Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 285 vs 260
  • Around 86% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1639 vs 882
  • Around 86% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1639 vs 882
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 30 May 2011 vs 22 May 2006
Core clock speed 900 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt vs 80 Watt
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 285 vs 260
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1639 vs 882
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1639 vs 882

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500

  • Around 25% higher texture fill rate: 9 GTexel / s vs 7.2 billion / sec
  • Around 47% higher memory clock speed: 1320 MHz vs 900 MHz
  • Around 53% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 81 vs 53
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 9 GTexel / s vs 7.2 billion / sec
Memory clock speed 1320 MHz vs 900 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 81 vs 53

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
285
260
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
53
81
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1639
882
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1639
882
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500
PassMark - G3D Mark 285 260
PassMark - G2D Mark 53 81
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 882
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 692
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1583
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1639 882

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 Curie
Code name GF119 G71
Launch date 30 May 2011 22 May 2006
Place in performance rating 1569 1566
Type Laptop Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $1,599
Price now $129.98
Value for money (0-100) 2.07

Technical info

Core clock speed 900 MHz 450 MHz
CUDA cores 48
Floating-point performance 172.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 48
Texture fill rate 7.2 billion / sec 9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt 80 Watt
Transistor count 292 million 278 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 173 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 API 9.0c
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s 42.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 900 MHz 1320 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus
Verde Drivers