AMD Radeon 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

Compare AMD Radeon 520 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 348.00
$ 112.08 significantly less expensive
$ 460.08

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

213 points
43% significantly better overall score
148 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
0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS
2 FPS
0 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
189% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
2372 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6539 points
176% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
2361 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6179 points
165% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
2331 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5421 points
62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3346 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit
128 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

48 GB/s
68% significantly higher memory bandwidth
28.51 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

4.1 Gigapixels/s
3% slightly higher pixel rate
3.97 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

20.6 Gigatexels/s
29% slightly higher texture rate
15.89 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
16
300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

419th of 586
468th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon 500 Series
-

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April
2017 October

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 GT 720 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GT 720 graphics card is better than the Radeon 520 in our tests.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GT 720 is faster than the Radeon 520.

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