NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 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 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
• 3x more core clock speed: 1620 MHz vs 540 MHz
• Around 50% higher pipelines: 48 vs 32
• 2x better floating-point performance: 155.52 gflops vs 76.16 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
• Around 62% lower typical power consumption: 29 Watt vs 47 Watt
• 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB (DDR3) vs 512 MB
• Around 29% higher memory clock speed: 900 MHz (DDR3) vs 700 MHz
• 2.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 319 vs 131
• 3.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 136 vs 42
• 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 903 vs 449
• Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1455 vs 1397
• 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 903 vs 449
• Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1455 vs 1397

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

• Around 32% higher texture fill rate: 8.6 billion / sec vs 6.5 billion / sec

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	319 131
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	136 42
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	903 449
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1455 1397
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	903 449
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1455 1397

Compare specifications (specs)