Intel HD 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Compare Intel HD 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 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

42789 points

28811% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

4 FPS

1019 FPS

1016 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

503 FPS

501 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

740 FPS

737 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

425 FPS

424 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3990 points

383325 points

9507% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4427 points

380401 points

8492% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

2017 MHz

572% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

900 MHz

2407 MHz

167% significantly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

3733% significantly lower TDP

575 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.7 Gigapixels/s

423.6 Gigapixels/s

15588% significantly higher pixel rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

192

21760

11233% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

680

2733% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

176

5766% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

467th of 586

1st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

HD 520 vs GeForce RTX 5090 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5090 beats the HD 520 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 5090 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 RTX 5090 also has a significantly 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 RTX 5090 at 575 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5090 is better than the HD 520.