Intel HD 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

Compare Intel HD 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030, 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

148 points

695 points

369% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

4 FPS

15 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

10 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

10 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

8 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4231 points

10713 points

153% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3998 points

10201 points

155% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3990 points

9924 points

148% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4427 points

9415 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1228 MHz

309% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

900 MHz

1468 MHz

63% significantly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

100% significantly lower TDP

30 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.7 Gigapixels/s

23.49 Gigapixels/s

770% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

21.6 Gigatexels/s

35.23 Gigatexels/s

63% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

192

384

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

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

472nd of 586

291st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May

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

4.6

HD 520 vs GeForce GT 1030 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GT 1030 beats the HD 520 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GT 1030 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 GT 1030 also has a significantly 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 GT 1030 at 30 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GT 1030 is better than the HD 520.