Intel HD 520 vs AMD Radeon R5 240

Compare Intel HD 520 vs AMD Radeon R5 240 2 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

213 points

43% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

4 FPS

5 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

3 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

5 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

0 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4231 points

5055 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3998 points

4874 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3990 points

4984 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4427 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4242 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

730 MHz

143% significantly higher core clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

233% significantly lower TDP

50 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

472nd of 586

424th of 586

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

HD 520 vs Radeon R5 240 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R5 240 GPU is faster than the HD 520 in gaming.

The Radeon R5 240 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

In addition, the HD 520 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the Radeon R5 240 at 50 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 Radeon R5 240 is better than the HD 520.