Intel HD 520 vs AMD Radeon HD 8210

Compare Intel HD 520 vs AMD Radeon HD 8210, 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

139 points
14% 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
Identical
4 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
3 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

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

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4231 points
439% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
784 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3990 points
303% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
988 points

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W
8 W
87% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.7 Gigapixels/s
125% significantly higher pixel rate
1.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

21.6 Gigatexels/s
800% significantly higher texture rate
2.4 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

192
49% significantly more shading units
128

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

24
200% significantly more texture mapping units
8

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

3
4
33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

485th of 599
499th of 599

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2014 January

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

HD 520 vs Radeon HD 8210 specs and performance

For gaming, the HD 520 graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 8210 in our tests.

In addition, the Radeon HD 8210 has a significantly lower TDP at 8 W when compared to the HD 520 at 15 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 Radeon HD 8210.

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