Intel HD 520 vs Intel Iris 6100

Compare Intel HD 520 vs Intel Iris 6100, 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

223 points

50% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

4 FPS

6 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

4 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

4 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

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

OpenCL compute benchmark

4231 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

3575 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3998 points

4075 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3990 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3026 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4427 points

4499 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

Identical

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

900 MHz

1000 MHz

11% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

Identical

15 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.7 Gigapixels/s

6 Gigapixels/s

122% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

21.6 Gigatexels/s

48 Gigatexels/s

122% 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

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

472nd of 586

413th of 586

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

HD 520 vs Iris 6100 comparison

For gaming, the Iris 6100 graphics card is better than the HD 520 in our tests.

By comparing the spec sheets, both the HD 520 and the Iris 6100 have the same base clock speed. Despite this, the Iris 6100 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, both the HD 520 and the Iris 6100 have an identical TDP. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Iris 6100 is better than the HD 520.