NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD Radeon 520

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD Radeon 520 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 129.95
$ 218.05 significantly less expensive
$ 348.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

695 points
226% significantly better overall score
213 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

15 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS
6 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10713 points
55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
6870 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10201 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
6539 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9924 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6179 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9415 points
73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
5421 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz
42% slightly higher boost clock speed
1030 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit
Identical
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

48.06 GB/s
0.12% slightly higher memory bandwidth
48 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

23.49 Gigapixels/s
472% significantly higher pixel rate
4.1 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

35.23 Gigatexels/s
71% significantly higher texture rate
20.6 Gigatexels/s

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

24
20% slightly more texture mapping units
20

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
300% significantly more render output processors
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

291st of 586
422nd of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May
2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
-

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon 520 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GT 1030 GPU is faster than the Radeon 520 in gaming.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GT 1030 is better than the Radeon 520.

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