NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs Intel HD 520

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 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

1419 points

858% significantly better overall score

148 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

4 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

17 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

21072 points

398% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4231 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

459% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

3998 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

396% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3990 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

370% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4427 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

275% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

30% slightly higher boost clock speed

900 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

15 W

700% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

1296% significantly higher pixel rate

2.7 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

249% significantly higher texture rate

21.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

433% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

166% 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

239th of 586

472nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

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 960 vs HD 520 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 960 GPU is faster than the HD 520 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 960 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 960 also has a slightly 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 960 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 960 is better than the HD 520.