AMD Radeon 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce 830M

Compare AMD Radeon 520 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 830M, 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

213 points
Identical
213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
4 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
3 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
3 FPS

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

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6870 points
55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
4422 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6539 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
4078 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6179 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
4410 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5421 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
4078 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1030 MHz
1150 MHz
11% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit
Identical
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

48 GB/s
233% significantly higher memory bandwidth
14.4 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

4.1 Gigapixels/s
9.2 Gigapixels/s
124% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

20.6 Gigatexels/s
11% slightly higher texture rate
18.4 Gigatexels/s

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

20
25% slightly more texture mapping units
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

4
8
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

415th of 586
419th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon 500 Series
-

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April
2014 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

-
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

-
4.6

Radeon 520 vs GeForce 830M comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon 520 beats the GeForce 830M in gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon 520 over the GeForce 830M.

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