Intel HD 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

Compare Intel HD 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M, 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

139 points

325 points

133% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

4 FPS

8 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

6 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

6 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

5 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4231 points

6193 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3998 points

5469 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3990 points

6264 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4427 points

5609 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1020 MHz

239% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

900 MHz

1098 MHz

22% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

400% significantly lower TDP

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.7 Gigapixels/s

17.57 Gigapixels/s

550% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

21.6 Gigatexels/s

35.14 Gigatexels/s

62% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

192

512

166% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

433% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

479th of 594

372nd of 594

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

HD 520 vs GeForce 940M comparison

For gaming, the GeForce 940M graphics card is better than the HD 520 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce 940M 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 940M also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the HD 520 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce 940M at 75 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce 940M over the HD 520.