Nvidia announced Tuesday that it has released the latest video card in its 500 series: the GeForce GT 520. The DirectX 11 (DX11) card is intended as a low-end discrete solution for system builders to use as a replacement for traditional integrated video.
The GT 520 is intended "to bring affordable DX11 systems to the masses."
Powered by the GF119 graphics processor - which is based on the company's latest Fermi architecture - the novelty sports 48 stream processing units, 8 texture units, 4 raster operation units, and a 64-bit memory controller. Nvidia's recommended clock-speeds for the GeForce GT 520 are 810MHz for the chip, 1620MHz for stream processors and 1800MHz for DDR3 memory. The board consumes up to 29W of total power.
The GeForce GT 520 fully supports all the modern technologies, including DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.1, OpenCL 1.1 and can playback all modern high-definition video formats, including Blu-ray 3D, with hardware acceleration. The graphics card can be used for acceleration of PhysX effects or CUDA-exclusive programs.
All in all a great card for a media center build.
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