NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs Intel HD Graphics 520

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM and Intel HD Graphics 520 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Intel HD Graphics 520

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
3.9x more core clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 14% higher boost clock speed: 1201 MHz vs 1050 MHz
42.7x more pipelines: 1024 vs 24
3.5x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 76.687 vs 21.852
6.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 890.785 vs 143.083
2.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 28.659 vs 12.958

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 November 2015 vs 1 September 2015
Core clock speed	1176 MHz vs 300 MHz
Boost clock speed	1201 MHz vs 1050 MHz
Pipelines	1024 vs 24
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	76.687 vs 21.852
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	890.785 vs 143.083
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	28.659 vs 12.958

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics 520

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 4 GB

Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	32 GB vs 4 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
GPU 2: Intel HD Graphics 520

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

76.687

21.852

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

890.785

143.083

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

28.659

12.958

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM	Intel HD Graphics 520
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	76.687	21.852
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	890.785	143.083
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	28.659	12.958
PassMark - G3D Mark		864
PassMark - G2D Mark		209
Geekbench - OpenCL		3993
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.243
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		28.182
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		951
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1462
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3337
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		951
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1462
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3337
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		326

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM	Intel HD Graphics 520
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	Generation 9.0
Code name	GM206	Skylake GT2
Launch date	26 November 2015	1 September 2015
Place in performance rating	978	1381
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1201 MHz	1050 MHz
Core clock speed	1176 MHz	300 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,460 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	14 nm
Pipelines	1024	24
Texture fill rate	76.86 GTexel / s
Transistor count	2,940 million	189 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		15 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x1
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	32 GB
Memory bandwidth	112.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 / 128 Bit
Memory clock speed	7012 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3L / LPDDR3 / DDR4
Shared memory		1
Technologies
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