AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs AMD Radeon 520

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 8 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

593 points
178% significantly better overall score
213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS
4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

8763 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
6870 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8956 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
6539 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9296 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6179 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11397 points
110% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
5421 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2000 MHz
94% significantly higher boost clock speed
1030 MHz

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigapixels/s
290% significantly higher pixel rate
4.1 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigatexels/s
210% significantly higher texture rate
20.6 Gigatexels/s

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

32
60% significantly more texture mapping units
20

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

309th of 586
419th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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Radeon Vega 8 vs Radeon 520 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon Vega 8 GPU is faster than the Radeon 520 in gaming.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon Vega 8 over the Radeon 520.

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