NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Intel HD 520

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB vs Intel HD 520, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1456 points

883% significantly better overall score

148 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

31 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

4 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

21 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22192 points

424% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4231 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

21230 points

431% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

3998 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21530 points

439% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3990 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20196 points

356% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4427 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1290 MHz

330% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1392 MHz

54% significantly higher boost clock speed

900 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

15 W

400% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

44.54 Gigapixels/s

1549% significantly higher pixel rate

2.7 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

66.82 Gigatexels/s

209% significantly higher texture rate

21.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

300% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

966% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

237th of 586

467th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs HD 520 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GPU is faster than the HD 520 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the HD 520 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti at 75 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is better than the HD 520.