NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs AMD Radeon 520

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB vs AMD Radeon 520 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon 520

Price

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$ 399.00

$ 348.00

$ 51.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6249 points

2833% significantly better overall score

213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

129 FPS

124 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

104 FPS

101 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

82 FPS

77 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

82 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61295 points

792% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

6870 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85662 points

1210% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

6539 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

68849 points

1014% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6179 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85261 points

1472% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5421 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1582 MHz

53% significantly higher boost clock speed

1030 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

11 GiB

175% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

352 Bit

450% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

484.4 GB/s

909% significantly higher memory bandwidth

48 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

139.2 Gigapixels/s

3295% significantly higher pixel rate

4.1 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

354.4 Gigatexels/s

1620% significantly higher texture rate

20.6 Gigatexels/s

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

1019% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

2099% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

77th of 586

422nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 March

2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs Radeon 520 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card is better than the Radeon 520 in our tests.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has significantly more memory with 11 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti over the Radeon 520.