NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs AMD Radeon 520

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2615 points
1127% significantly better overall score
213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS
58 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

32 FPS
29 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS
41 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

25 FPS
23 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

55123 points
702% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
6870 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47251 points
622% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
6539 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51045 points
726% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6179 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53105 points
879% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
5421 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1500 MHz
45% significantly higher boost clock speed
1030 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
Identical
4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192 GB/s
300% significantly higher memory bandwidth
48 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.82 Gigapixels/s
724% significantly higher pixel rate
4.1 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

67.65 Gigatexels/s
228% significantly higher texture rate
20.6 Gigatexels/s

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

64
220% significantly more texture mapping units
20

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
700% significantly more render output processors
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

170th of 586
425th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May
2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs Radeon 520 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop beats the Radeon 520 in gaming performance.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop is better than the Radeon 520.

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