Forsa GT 520 is an ideal HTPC card. With the half height form factor it can easily fit into a small form factor cabinet. Older generations games can be played at lower resolutions, but please note that gaming is not what this card is meant for. We feel that the pricing should be around the Rs. 2,500 region.
Design and Build: Being an NVIDIA card comes across with the green coloured fan located atop a heatsink. It comes with all the three ports such as DVI, VGA and HDMI. The heatsink has quite a lot of fins which assist in heat dissipation. Surprisingly it does not come with a half height adapter which is kind of expected with such cards.
Performance: As is indicative from the graphs above, this category of cards is not suited for playing present generation games. You can lower the resolution and try to push the card, but the experience is not worth it. The only game where you can play comfortably is Dirt 3 at resolutions such as 1024×768 and lower. Far Cry2 at even 1280×1024, No AA manages only 19 FPS which is not great at all. Its load temperature is lower than that of XFX HD 6450 but the temperature delta is higher than the XFX card.
Refer to the gallery to view benchmarks, as well as the below table.
Verdict: Forsa GT 520 is an ideal HTPC card. With the half height form factor it can easily fit into a small form factor cabinet. Older generations games can be played at lower resolutions, but please note that gaming is not what this card is meant for. We feel that the pricing should be around the Rs. 2,500 region.
Score Out of 100: 17.29
Price: Rs.3,200
| Brand Model | Forsa GT520 |
| GPU Codename | GF119 |
| Type of memory / Memory Clock (MHz) | DDR3 / 650 |
| Core / Shader Clock (MHz) | 810 / 1620 |
| No. of Stream Processors | 48 |
| Memory size (MB) / Memory Interface | 2048 / 64-bit |
| Connects on card | HDMI, DVI, D-Sub |
| Accessories provided | Driver CD |
| Game Provided | N |
| Synthetic Benchmarks | |
| 3D Mark 11 (Overall) | 1131 |
| 3D Mark 11 (Graphics) | 988 |
| Unigine Heaven v2.5 (1680×1050, 4xAF, Max Shader, Extreme Tesellation) Score | 89 |
| Unigine Heaven v2.5 (1680×1050, 4xAF, Max Shader, Extreme Tesellation) Frame rate | 3.5 |
| Temperature (Load) | 55 |
| Temperature (Idle) | 37 |
| Game Benchmarks | |
| FarCry 2 (1280×1024, Ultra High, No AA) Avg | 18.63 |
| FarCry 2 (1680×1050, Ultra High, No AA) Avg | 15.81 |
| FarCry 2 (1920×1080, Ultra High, No AA) Avg | 14.11 |
| FarCry 2 (1280×1024, Ultra High, 4xAA) Avg | 14.38 |
| FarCry 2 (1680×1050, Ultra High, 4xAA) Avg | 11.95 |
| FarCry 2 (1920×1080, Ultra High, 4xAA) Avg | 10.89 |
| S.T.A.L.K.E.R : Call of Pripyat (Day, 1680×1050, No AA, DX11, Ultra Detail) Avg | 18 |
| S.T.A.L.K.E.R : Call of Pripyat (Day, 1680×1050, 4x AA, DX11, Ultra Detail) Avg | |
| S.T.A.L.K.E.R : Call of Pripyat (Day, 1920×1080, 4xAA, DX11, Ultra Detail) Avg | 16.5 |
| 14.3 | |
| Resident Evil (1680×1050, 4xAA, Motion Blur on) | |
| Resident Evil (1920×1080, 4xAA, Motion Blur on) | 14 |
| 11 | |
| Crysis Warhead (1280×1024, DX10, Med) Avg | |
| Crysis Warhead (1680×1050, DX10, Med) Avg | 25.04 |
| Crysis Warhead (1680×1050, DX10, Very High) Avg | 22.33 |
| Crysis Warhead (1920×1080, DX10, Very High) Avg | 19.91 |
| 19.91 | |
| Dirt 3 (1280×1024, No AA, Details Medium) Avg | 104.19 |
| Dirt 3 (1680×1050, No AA, Details Medium) Avg | 92.58 |
| Dirt 3 (1920×1080, No AA, Details Medium) Avg | 83.61 |
| Dirt 3 (1280×1024, 4x AA, Details High) Avg | 84.64 |
| Dirt 3 (1680×1050, 4x AA, Details High) Avg | 73.38 |
| Dirt 3 (1920×1080, 4x AA, Details High) Avg | 67.77 |
| Crysis 2 (1920×1080 Hardcore) | 33.68 |
| Crysis 2 (1680×1050 Hardcore) | 38.36 |