NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs Intel HD 520

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 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

2494 points

1585% significantly better overall score

148 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

48 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

4 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

690% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4231 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

933% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

3998 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

767% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3990 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

762% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4427 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

275% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

35% slightly higher boost clock speed

900 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

15 W

1000% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

2782% significantly higher pixel rate

2.7 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

620% significantly higher texture rate

21.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

966% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

433% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

2033% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586

473rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

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 980 vs HD 520 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 980 beats the HD 520 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 980 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 980 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 980 at 165 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 980 is faster than the HD 520.