Intel HD 520 vs Intel Iris Xe MAX

Compare Intel HD 520 vs Intel Iris Xe MAX, 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

742 points

401% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

4 FPS

20 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

8 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

12 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

8 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4231 points

17398 points

311% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3998 points

15155 points

279% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3990 points

14058 points

252% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4427 points

17892 points

304% significantly 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

1650 MHz

83% significantly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

66% significantly lower TDP

25 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.7 Gigapixels/s

39.6 Gigapixels/s

1366% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

21.6 Gigatexels/s

79.2 Gigatexels/s

266% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

192

768

300% 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

700% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

473rd of 586

285th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

LPDDR4X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

HD 520 vs Iris Xe MAX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Iris Xe MAX beats the HD 520 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that both the HD 520 and Iris Xe MAX both have the same core clock speed. Despite this, the Iris Xe MAX 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 Iris Xe MAX at 25 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 Iris Xe MAX is better than the HD 520.