Intel HD 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

Compare Intel HD 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M, 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

22% slightly better overall score

121 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

4 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

3 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

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

Identical

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4231 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

2056 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3990 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

2610 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

719 MHz

139% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

900 MHz

18% slightly higher boost clock speed

758 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

120% significantly lower TDP

33 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.7 Gigapixels/s

3.03 Gigapixels/s

12% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

21.6 Gigatexels/s

78% significantly higher texture rate

12.13 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

192

Identical

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

470th of 586

489th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 April

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 GT 720M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the HD 520 beats the GeForce GT 720M in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GT 720M has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the HD 520 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 GT 720M at 33 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the HD 520 is better than the GeForce GT 720M.