Intel HD 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

Compare Intel HD 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720, 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
Identical
148 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

4 FPS
Identical
4 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS
Identical
2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS
Identical
2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS
2 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4231 points
78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
2372 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3998 points
69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
2361 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3990 points
71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
2331 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4427 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3346 points

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W
233% significantly lower TDP
50 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.7 Gigapixels/s
3.97 Gigapixels/s
47% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

21.6 Gigatexels/s
35% slightly higher texture rate
15.89 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

192
Identical
192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

24
49% significantly more texture mapping units
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

3
16
433% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

473rd of 586
472nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2017 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

HD 520 vs GeForce GT 720 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GT 720 graphics card is better than the HD 520 in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GT 720 over the HD 520.

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