AMD Radeon 530 vs AMD Radeon 520

Compare AMD Radeon 530 4 GB vs AMD Radeon 520 4 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

204 points
213 points
4% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS
Identical
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS
Identical
4 FPS

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

6960 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
6870 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8039 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
6539 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6343 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6179 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

7006 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
5421 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1024 MHz
1030 MHz
0.59% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
Identical
4 GiB

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
Identical
48 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

8.2 Gigapixels/s
100% significantly higher pixel rate
4.1 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

24.58 Gigatexels/s
19% slightly higher texture rate
20.6 Gigatexels/s

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

8
100% significantly more render output processors
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

429th of 586
420th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon 500 Series
Radeon 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April
2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
GDDR5

Radeon 530 vs Radeon 520 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon 520 beats the Radeon 530 in gaming performance.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon 520 is faster than the Radeon 530.

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