14 DAY TRIAL // Made official just yesterday, the Nvidia GeForce GT 520 has been already used to power an impressive number of graphics cards from various board vendors, but this hasn't stopped Lantic from releasing their own version of the card.
Just like virtually all the other GT 520 solutions that were launched until now, Lantic's creation also uses a low profile printed circuit board (PCB) that is cooled by a compact aluminum heatsink paired together with a low diameter fan.
This resembles a great deal Nvidia's reference design and the GF119 GPU that powers the graphics card is clocked at the stock 810MHz.
The memory however is run 500MHz lower than Nvidia's recommendation, as it works at 1300MHz compared to the default 1800MHz data rate.
Otherwise, the card doesn't differ all that much from the other GT 520 versions that were released until now and offers the same dual-link DVI, HDMI and D-Sub video outputs.
No details regarding pricing and availability were made official by Lantic.
Nvidia designed the GeForce GT 520 to replace the aging GeForce GT 220 and it packs the same GF119 core that the company used for its GeForce GT 410M and 520M mobile offerings.
This is basically a cut-in-half version of the GF108 GPU and it packs 48 stream processors, 8 texturing units, 4ROP units as well as a 64-bit wide memory interface which, in Lantic's case, is connected to 1GB of GDDR3 video buffer.
The TDP of the GT 520 is rated at 29W when the card is fully loaded and its idle power consumption is expected to sit around the 10W mark.
Judging by the low TDP, one would expect the GT 520 to become a prime candidate for passive cooling, but, until now, only Gainward has released a fanless graphics card based on the GF119 core.