NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs AMD Radeon 520

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 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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Price

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$ 1549.99
$ 348.00
$ 1201.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points
6468% significantly better overall score
213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS
327 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS
166 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS
236 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS
133 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

204921 points
2882% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
6870 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

138859 points
2023% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
6539 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points
3047% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6179 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points
3217% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
5421 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz
64% significantly higher boost clock speed
1030 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

24 GiB
499% significantly more memory
4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit
499% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

936.2 GB/s
1850% significantly higher memory bandwidth
48 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s
4529% significantly higher pixel rate
4.1 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s
2599% significantly higher texture rate
20.6 Gigatexels/s

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328
1539% significantly more texture mapping units
20

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112
2700% significantly more render output processors
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th of 586
416th of 586

Family

The product line

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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
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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GeForce RTX 3090 vs Radeon 520 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card is better than the Radeon 520 in our tests.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3090 over the Radeon 520.

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