Intel HD 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Compare Intel HD 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 3 GB, 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

1159 points

683% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

4 FPS

27 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

16 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

18 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

13 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4231 points

14647 points

246% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3998 points

14555 points

264% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3990 points

15295 points

283% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4427 points

16140 points

264% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

915 MHz

205% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

900 MHz

980 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

900% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.7 Gigapixels/s

27.44 Gigapixels/s

916% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

21.6 Gigatexels/s

109.8 Gigatexels/s

408% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

192

1344

599% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

366% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

700% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

467th of 586

253rd of 586

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

HD 520 vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 660 Ti graphics card is better than the HD 520 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 660 Ti 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 GTX 660 Ti also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the HD 520 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660 Ti at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 660 Ti is faster than the HD 520.