NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX
The NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX is an entry level dedicated laptop graphics card presented in 2011. It is based on the GF119 like the GT 520M, but features a higher core and shader clock rate. Using DDR3, the 64 Bit memory bus may become a bottleneck of the graphics card.
Architecture
The GF119 offers 48 ALUs, 8 texture units and a 64 Bit memory interface for DDR3-VRAM. Therefore, it is similar to a half GF108 (GeForce GT 540M) but already manufactured with optimized transistors. As a difference the amount of raster-operation-processors (ROP) stayed the same counting 4. The GF119 is the smalles chip of the Fermi generation and is used for low end laptops.
Performance
As an entry level card, the GT 520MX has to compete against the Intel HD Graphics 3000 in the current Sandy Bridge processors. Due to the higher clock speeds, the MX should be faster than the GT 520M which was only slightly faster than the HD 3000 but clearly still beyond the faster GT 525M. Therefore demanding games like Crysis 2 or Mafia 2 run only in lowest detail and resolutions fluently. Less demanding games lik Fifa 11 or Sims 3 should be playable even in high detail settings.
Features
As the other 500M series chips, the 520MX supports Bitstream HD Audio (Blu-Ray) output via HDMI. That means the card is able to transfer Dolby True HD and DTS-HD bitstream-wise without quality loss to a HiFi receiver.
The GT520MX offers the PureVideo HD technology for video decoding. The included Video Processor 5 (VP5) supports feature set D and therefore the GPU is able to fully decode MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2 (MPEG-4 ASP - e.g., DivX or Xvid), VC-1/WMV9, and H.264 (VLD, IDCT, Motion Compensation, and Deblocking). Compared to the older VP4, the VP5 offers faster decodes at lower power, HD-to-SD transcodes and 4K x 4K resolution H.264 decode support.
Furthermore, the GPU is able to decode two 1080p streams simultaneously (e.g. for Blu-Ray Picture-in-Picture).
Through CUDA, OpenCL, and DirectCompute 2.1 support, the GeForce GT 520MX can be of help in general calculations. For example, the stream processor can considerably faster encode videos than a fast CPU can. Furthermore, physics calculations can be theoretically done by the GPU using PhysX (e.g. supported by Mafia 2 or Metro 2033) but the performance wont be sufficient for this.
| Manufacturer | NVIDIA |
| GeForce GT 500M Series | GeForce GT 555M 144@525-753MHz GeForce GT 550M 96@740MHz GeForce GT 540M 96@672MHz GeForce GT 525M 96@600MHz GeForce GT 520MX 48@900MHz GeForce GT 520M 48@740 / 600MHz |
| Codename | N12P-GVR |
| Architecture | Fermi |
| Pipelines | 48 - unified |
| Core Speed * | 900 MHz |
| Shader Speed * | 1800 MHz |
| Memory Speed * | 900 MHz |
| Memory Bus Width | 64 Bit |
| Memory Type | DDR3 |
| Max. Amount of Memory | 1024 MB |
| Shared Memory | no |
| DirectX | DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 |
| technology | 40 nm |
| Features | Verde Drivers, CUDA, Optimus, DirectCompute, OpenCL, DirectX11, OpenGL 4.1 |
| Date of Announcement | 30.05.2011 |
Benchmarks
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The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailled information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
For more games that might be playable and a list of all games and graphics cards visit our Gaming List
Notebook reviews with NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX graphics card
Samsung 300E5A-S01: Intel Core i3 2330M, 15.6", 2.3 kg
Review » Review Samsung 300E5A-S01 Notebook
Asus K53SC-SX054V: Intel Core i5 2410M, 15.6", 2.6 kg
External Review » Asus K53SC-SX054V
Asus X53SC-SX041V: Intel Core i7 2670QM, 15.6", 2.6 kg
External Review » Asus X53SC-SX041V
Samsung 300E5A-S01: Intel Core i3 2330M, 15.6", 2.3 kg
External Review » Samsung 300E5A-S01
Samsung 300E5A-S02EE: Intel Core i3 2310M, 15.6", 2.4 kg
External Review » Samsung 300E5A-S02EE
Samsung 300E5A-S03DE: Intel Core i3 2330M, 15.6", 2.3 kg
External Review » Samsung 300E5A-S03DE
Samsung 300E5Z-S02RS: Intel Core i3 2350M, 15.6", 2.3 kg
External Review » Samsung 300E5Z-S02RS
Samsung 300E5Z-S03RS: Intel Pentium B950, 15.6", 2.3 kg
External Review » Samsung 300E5Z-S03RS
Samsung 300V5A-S01: Intel Core i7 2630QM, 15.6", 2.5 kg
External Review » Samsung 300V5A-S01
Samsung 300V5A-S03AT: Intel Core i3 2310M, 15.6", 2.6 kg
External Review » Samsung 300V5A-S03AT
Samsung 300V5A-S04RU: Intel Pentium B940, 15.6", 2.5 kg
External Review » Samsung 300V5A-S04RU
Samsung 300V5A-S06AT: Intel Core i5 2410M, 15.6", 2.6 kg
External Review » Samsung 300V5A-S06AT
Samsung 300V5A-S07AT: Intel Core i3 2310M, 15.6", 2.6 kg
External Review » Samsung 300V5A-S07AT
Samsung 300V5AH-S02HU: Intel Core i3 2310M, 15.6", 2.5 kg
External Review » Samsung 300V5AH-S02HU
