Intel HD 520 vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

Compare Intel HD 520 vs AMD Radeon R7 260X 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

779 points

426% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

4 FPS

19 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

11 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

16 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

6 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1100 MHz

266% significantly higher core clock speed

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

666% significantly lower TDP

115 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.7 Gigapixels/s

17.6 Gigapixels/s

551% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

21.6 Gigatexels/s

61.6 Gigatexels/s

185% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

192

896

366% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

133% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

433% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

472nd of 586

284th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

HD 520 vs Radeon R7 260X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon R7 260X beats the HD 520 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon R7 260X 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 Radeon R7 260X also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the HD 520 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the Radeon R7 260X at 115 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R7 260X is faster than the HD 520.