NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs AMD Radeon 520

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 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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$ 749.99

$ 348.00

$ 401.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11608 points

5349% significantly better overall score

213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

281 FPS

275 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

138 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

200 FPS

195 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

111 FPS

109 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

181771 points

2545% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

6870 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

126138 points

1829% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

6539 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

173309 points

2704% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6179 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158661 points

2826% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5421 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

66% significantly higher boost clock speed

1030 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

10 GiB

150% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

320 Bit

400% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

760.3 GB/s

1483% significantly higher memory bandwidth

48 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s

3904% significantly higher pixel rate

4.1 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

465.1 Gigatexels/s

2157% significantly higher texture rate

20.6 Gigatexels/s

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272

1259% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

2299% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

32nd of 586

416th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3080 vs Radeon 520 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 GPU is faster than the Radeon 520 in gaming.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3080 has significantly more memory with 10 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 RTX 3080 over the Radeon 520.