Intel hd graphics 520 specifications: Intel HD Graphics 520 Specs

6 февраля, 2023

Intel HD 520 (Review) – Graphics of 6th Gen Core U-Series CPUs – Laptop Graphics

The Intel HD 520 is a graphics processor you can find integrated in the 6th Generation Intel Core U-series “Skylake” CPUs, such as the popular Core i5-6200U and i7-6500U. These chips are typically used in the mainstream notebooks, ultraportables, and select lower-end gaming laptops.

The GPU brings a slight performance improvement over the previous generation Intel HD 5500, primarily thanks to a bit higher clock speeds of 1,000 or 1050 MHz (depending on CPU model) instead of 900 MHz, as well as doubled number or ROP and TMU units. What’s not visible in graphics rendering benchmarks, such as 3D Mark 11 below, is improved support for 4K content decoding, resulting in lower CPU use when you play these high-resolution videos. As expected, 4K, Full HD, and lower resolution videos run perfectly smooth on the Intel HD 520.

Intel HD 520 3D Mark 11 Benchmark

Game Benchmarks

For this review, we used an HP Pavilion 15 15. 6-inch Full HD laptop with the mid-range Intel Core i5-6200U processor with the Intel HD 520 graphics, 8GB of dual-channel system memory (2 x 4GB modules), and a standard 5,400rpm mechanical hard drive with 1TB capacity. The tested machine had Windows 10 Home operating system and Intel HD 10.18.15.4281 drivers installed. Keep in mind that laptops with single channel memory setups, with one RAM module instead of two or more, won’t have as good integrated graphics performance as the dual-channel ones. Also, different processor models like the i3, i5 and i7, different thermal designs of laptops’ chassis, as well as BIOS settings, can influence performance of the Intel HD 520 and other integrated graphics processors.

Gameplays were recorded with help of a specialized capture card on another computer instead of using software recorders which can degrade system performance.

 

DOTA 2 is another famous MMORPG title. It requires better hardware resources than LoL and you won’t be able to play it on maximal settings and Full HD with the Intel HD 520. Instead an optimal choice appears to be 720p HD-class resolutions like 1280×720 and lower-mid detail settings. Frame rates in this case are around 45. If you increase settings to higher-medium, fps will drop to around 35 mark.

 

The Intel HD 520 can render PC game classic Minecraft effortlessly on the highest settings. Frame rates were somewhere between 60 and 70 fps most of the time.

 

Counter Strike: Global Offensive – the most played first person shooter game, isn’t a graphics-rich title. On the positive side, it doesn’t require gaming-class hardware. On the Intel HD 520 graphics, you can play it on 720p resolution and high settings, with around 65 fps most of the time.

 

The latest iteration of Grand Theft Auto – GTA 5, isn’t so integrated graphics-friendly as the CS:GO. One can say the game is barely playable on the reviewed GPU. With all settings set to minimum and 720p resolution, frame rates vary between 20 and 25 fps.

 

Battlefield 4 works quite smooth, if you’re willing to make a compromise and dial down resolution to 720p and put settings on medium. However, there was a glitch with displaying ground textures, which we weren’t able to fix by changing graphics settings or reinstalling graphics drivers and the game.

 

A similar story is with Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Frame rates varied greatly, depending on scene, but generally they were mostly between 30 and 50 fps on minimal settings and 720p resolution. Unfortunately, a serious graphics rendering glitch on a part of the first level was very annoying, as you can see in the first part of the video. Again, we weren’t able to fix it.

 

Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim runs very well on low / 720p settings, with mostly 50 – 60 fps.

 

FIFA 2016 is easily playable, but the settings need to be put on minimum to achieve gameplay without stutter. During standard camera shots of the matches, frame rates are around 55 fps, while during zoomed in scenes like goal celebrations, when the objects are bigger, they drop to around 30 fps.

For a list of laptops with the Intel HD 520 click here.

Note: The benchmark scores of the listed graphics processors are averages measured across various devices with these processors. The scores and real-world performance of the Intel HD 520 and compared GPUs may vary depending on the notebooks’ other components, settings, cooling, and other factors (especially single-channel vs faster dual-channel RAM and speed of the main processor). However, the benchmark results, as well as gameplay videos, are good indicators of the graphics processors’ performance.

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Current rating: 4.33 out of 5 stars

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HD Graphics 520 [in 7 benchmarks]



HD Graphics 520

Buy

  • Interface PCIe 3. 0 x1

  • Core clock speed 300

  • Max video memory 32768 Mb

  • Memory type DDR3L/LPDDR3/DDR4

  • Memory clock speed System Shared

  • Maximum resolution

Summary

Intel started HD Graphics 520 sales 1 September 2015. This is Gen. 9 Skylake architecture notebook card based on 14 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 3.0 x1 interface. Power consumption is at 15 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at


2.15%

of a leader’s which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.


HD
Graphics 520

vs


GeForce RTX
4090

General info


Of HD Graphics 520’s architecture, market segment and release date.

Place in performance rating 748
Place by popularity 11
Value for money 0.61
Architecture Gen. 9 Skylake (2015−2016)
GPU code name Skylake GT2
Market segment Laptop
Release date 1 September 2015 (7 years ago)
Current price $309 of 49999 (A100 SXM4)

Value for money

To calculate the index we compare the characteristics of graphics cards against their prices.

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Technical specs


HD Graphics 520’s general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of HD Graphics 520’s performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores 24 of 18432 (AD102)
Core clock speed 300 MHz of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed 1050 MHz of 2903 (Radeon Pro W6600)
Number of transistors 189 million of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080 Ti)
Thermal design power (TDP) 15 Watt of 900 (Tesla S2050)
Texture fill rate 25.20 of 961.9 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements


Information on HD Graphics 520’s compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it’s notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interface PCIe 3.0 x1

Memory


Parameters of memory installed on HD Graphics 520: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type DDR3L/LPDDR3/DDR4
Maximum RAM amount 32 GB of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width 64/128 Bit of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed System Shared of 21000 (GeForce RTX 3090 Ti)
Shared memory +

Video outputs and ports


Types and number of video connectors present on HD Graphics 520. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors No outputs

Technologies


Technological solutions and APIs supported by HD Graphics 520. You’ll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync +

API support


APIs supported by HD Graphics 520, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX 12 (12_1)
Shader Model 6.4
OpenGL 4.6
OpenCL 2. 1
Vulkan +

Benchmark performance


Non-gaming benchmark performance of HD Graphics 520. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.


HD Graphics 520
2.15

  • Passmark

  • 3DMark Vantage Performance

  • 3DMark 11 Performance GPU

  • 3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

  • 3DMark Fire Strike Score

  • 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

  • 3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Passmark

This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 26%


HD Graphics 520
831

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280×1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%


HD Graphics 520
5722

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280×720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Benchmark coverage: 17%


HD Graphics 520
1294

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280×720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 14%


HD Graphics 520
6701

3DMark Fire Strike Score

Benchmark coverage: 14%


HD Graphics 520
752

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature seemingly made of lava. Using 1920×1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic enough graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%


HD Graphics 520
804

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280×720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 8%


HD Graphics 520
73656

Game benchmarks


Let’s see how good HD Graphics 520 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

900p 20
Full HD 11
Popular games
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Assassin’s Creed Odyssey 2−3


Assassin’s Creed Valhalla 1−2


Battlefield 5 2−3


Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 10−11


Forza Horizon 4 2−3


Red Dead Redemption 2 3−4


Shadow of the Tomb Raider 3−4

























































Assassin’s Creed Odyssey 2−3


Assassin’s Creed Valhalla 1−2


Battlefield 5 2−3


Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 10−11


Forza Horizon 4 2−3


Metro Exodus 2−3


Red Dead Redemption 2 3−4


Shadow of the Tomb Raider 3−4


The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 4

































Assassin’s Creed Odyssey 2−3


Assassin’s Creed Valhalla 1−2


Battlefield 5 2−3


Forza Horizon 4 2−3


The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 3−4







































Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 5−6


Horizon Zero Dawn 1−2


Metro Exodus 2−3


Red Dead Redemption 2 2−3


Shadow of the Tomb Raider 3−4


The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 2−3









Watch Dogs: Legion 1−2

































Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3


Hitman 3 1−2


Horizon Zero Dawn 3−4


Red Dead Redemption 2 1−2


The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 2−3













































Assassin’s Creed Odyssey 0−1


Assassin’s Creed Valhalla 1−2


Cyberpunk 2077 1−2


Far Cry 5 2−3


Far Cry New Dawn 4−5


Forza Horizon 4 1−2


Watch Dogs: Legion 1−2


Relative perfomance


Overall HD Graphics 520 performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.


AMD Radeon R7 (Kaveri)
100.47


AMD Radeon HD 8650M
100.47


Intel HD Graphics 510
100


Intel HD Graphics 520
100


Intel UHD Graphics (Jasper Lake 24 EU)
99.53


NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M
98.6


Intel HD Graphics 5300
98.6

Similar GPUs

Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.


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Graphics 510


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Radeon R7
(Kaveri)


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Radeon HD
8650M


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Graphics 5300


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GeForce GT
730M


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HD
Graphics 6000


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Recommended processors

These processors are most commonly used with HD Graphics 520 according to our statistics.


Core i3
6006U

27.7%


Core i5
6200U

15.1%


Core i5
6300U

10.6%


Core i3
6100U

7.3%


Core i7
6500U

3.6%


Core i7
6600U

3.1%


Core i5
1135G7

2.1%


Core i3
1005G1

2%


Core i3
1115G4

1. 5%


Core i3
6100

1%

User rating


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Questions and comments


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HD Graphics 520 [in 7 benchmarks]

HD Graphics 520

  • PCIe 3.0 x1 interface
  • Core frequency 300
  • Video memory size 32768 Mb
  • Memory type DDR3L/LPDDR3/DDR4
  • System Shared Memory Frequency
  • Maximum resolution

Description

Intel started HD Graphics 520 sales on September 1, 2015. This is Gen. 9Skylake and 14 nm manufacturing process, primarily designed for office use.

In terms of compatibility, this is a PCIe 3.0 x1 card. Power consumption — 15 W.

It provides poor performance in tests and games at the level of

2.15%

from the leader, which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.


HD
Graphics 520

vs


GeForce RTX
4090

General information

Information about the type (desktop or laptop) and architecture of the HD Graphics 520, as well as when sales started and cost at the time.

for laptops for laptop0007 50

  • 100

    • Features

    HD Graphics 520’s general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. They indirectly speak of HD Graphics 520’s performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

    Performance ranking 748
    place in popularity 11
    Price-quality ratio 0.61
    Architecture

    		GENE. 9 Skylake (2015−2016)
    Graphic processor Skylake GT2
    type

    Number of Stream Processors
    Interface PCIe 3.0 x1

    RAM

    Parameters of the memory installed on HD Graphics 520 — type, size, bus, frequency and bandwidth. For video cards built into the processor that do not have their own memory, a shared part of the RAM is used.

    Memory type DDR3L/LPDDR3/DDR4 +

    Video outputs

    Types and number of video connectors present on HD Graphics 520. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for laptop ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.

    Video Connectors No outputs

    Technology solutions and APIs supported by HD Graphics 520 are listed here.

    You will need this information if your graphics card is required to support specific technologies.

    Opencl 2.1 VULKAN +

    9014EAR

    9014 9014 9014 9014EVM
    These are the results of HD Graphics 520 rendering performance tests in non-gaming benchmarks. The overall score is set from 0 to 100, where 100 corresponds to the fastest video card at the moment.

    Overall test performance

    This is our overall performance rating. We regularly improve our algorithms, but if you find any inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in the comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

    HD Graphics 520
    2.15

    • Passmark
    • 3DMark Vantage Performance
    • 3DMark 11 Performance GPU
    • 3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
    • 3DMark Fire Strike Score
    • 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
    • 3DMark Ice Storm GPU
    Passmark

    This is a very common benchmark included in the Passmark PerformanceTest package. He gives the card a thorough evaluation, running four separate tests for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11, and 12 (the latter being done at 4K resolution whenever possible), and a few more tests using DirectCompute.

    Benchmark coverage: 26%

    HD Graphics 520
    831

    3DMark Vantage Performance

    3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark. It loads the graphics card with two scenes, one of which is a girl running away from some kind of military base located in a sea cave, and the other is a space fleet attacking defenseless planet. Support for 3DMark Vantage was discontinued in April 2017 and it is now recommended to use the Time Spy benchmark instead.

    Benchmark coverage: 17%

    HD Graphics 520
    5722

    3DMark 11 Performance GPU

    3DMark 11 is Futuremark’s legacy DirectX 11 benchmark. He used four tests based on two scenes: one is several submarines exploring a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All tests make extensive use of volumetric lighting and tessellation and, despite being run at 1280×720, are relatively heavy. Support for 3DMark 11 ended in January 2020 and is now being replaced by Time Spy.

    Benchmark coverage: 17%

    HD Graphics 520
    1294

    3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

    Cloud Gate is a legacy benchmark that uses DirectX 11 feature level 10, used to test home PCs and low-end laptops. It displays several scenes of some strange teleportation device launching spaceships into the unknown at a fixed resolution of 1280×720. As with the Ice Storm benchmark, it was deprecated in January 2020 and 3DMark Night Raid is now recommended instead.

    Benchmark coverage: 14%

    HD Graphics 520
    6701

    3DMark Fire Strike Score

    Benchmark coverage: 14%

    HD Graphics 520
    752

    3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

    Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests showing a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature that appears to be made of lava. Using resolution 1920×1080, Fire Strike shows quite realistic graphics and is quite demanding on hardware.

    Benchmark coverage: 14%

    HD Graphics 520
    804

    3DMark Ice Storm GPU

    Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of the 3DMark package. Ice Storm has been used to measure the performance of entry-level laptops and Windows-based tablets. It uses DirectX 11 feature level 9to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280×720 resolution. Support for Ice Storm ended in January 2020, now the developers recommend using Night Raid instead.

    Benchmark coverage: 8%

    HD Graphics 520
    73656

    Game tests

    FPS in popular games on HD Graphics 520, as well as compliance with system requirements. Remember that the official requirements of the developers do not always match the data of real tests.
    Ultra Preset

  • 1440p
    High Preset
  • 1440p
    Ultra Preset
  • 4K
    High Preset
  • 4K
    Ultra Preset
    • Assassin’s Creed Odyssey 2-3
    Assassin’s Creed Valhalla 1-2
    Battlefield 5 2-3
    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 10-11
    Forza Horizon 4 2-3
    Red Dead Redemption 2 3-4
    Shadow of the Tomb Raider 3-4
    Assassin’s Creed Odyssey 2-3
    Assassin’s Creed Valhalla 1-2
    Battlefield 5 2-3
    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 10-11
    Forza Horizon 4 2-3
    Metro Exodus 2-3
    Red Dead Redemption 2 3-4
    Shadow of the Tomb Raider 3-4
    The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 4
    Assassin’s Creed Odyssey 2-3
    Assassin’s Creed Valhalla 1-2
    Battlefield 5 2-3
    Forza Horizon 4 2-3
    The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 3-4
    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 5-6
    Horizon Zero Dawn 1-2
    Metro Exodus 2-3
    Red Dead Redemption 2 2-3
    Shadow of the Tomb Raider 3-4
    The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 2-3
    Watch Dogs: Legion 1-2
    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2-3
    Hitman 3 1-2
    Horizon Zero Dawn 3-4
    Red Dead Redemption 2 1-2
    The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 2-3
    Assassin’s Creed Odyssey 0−1
    Assassin’s Creed Valhalla 1-2
    Cyberpunk 2077 1-2
    Far Cry 5 2-3
    Far Cry New Dawn 4-5
    Forza Horizon 4 1-2
    Watch Dogs: Legion 1-2

    Relative capacity

    Overall performance of HD Graphics 520 compared to its nearest competitor in notebook graphics cards.

    AMD Radeon R7 (Kaveri)
    100.47

    AMD Radeon HD 8650M
    100.47

    Intel HD Graphics 510
    100

    Intel HD Graphics 520
    100

    Intel UHD Graphics (Jasper Lake 24 EU)
    99.53

    NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M
    98.6

    Intel HD Graphics 5300
    98.6

    Other video cards

    Here we recommend several video cards that are more or less similar in performance to the reviewed one.


    HD
    Graphics 510

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    Radeon R7
    (Kaveri)

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    Radeon HD
    8650M

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    HD
    Graphics 5300

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    GeForce GT
    730M

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    HD
    Graphics 6000

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    Recommended Processors

    According to our statistics, these processors are most often used with HD Graphics 520.


    Core i3
    6006U

    27.7%


    Core i5
    6200U

    15.1%


    Core i5
    6300U

    10.6%


    Core i3
    6100U

    7.3%


    Core i7
    6500U

    3.6%


    Core i7
    6600U

    3.1%


    Core i5
    1135G7

    2.1%


    Core i3
    1005G1

    2%


    Core i3
    1115G4

    1.5%


    Core i3
    6100

    1%

    User rating

    Here you can see the rating of the video card by users, as well as put your own rating.