NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs Intel HD 4600

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB vs Intel HD 4600, 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

2457 points

1667% significantly better overall score

139 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

4 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

40 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36416 points

1083% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

3076 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37241 points

1225% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

2810 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36494 points

1039% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3204 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

35697 points

1287% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

2573 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

276% significantly higher core clock speed

400 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1709 MHz

55% significantly higher boost clock speed

1100 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

45 W

166% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

82.03 Gigapixels/s

3628% significantly higher pixel rate

2.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

136.7 Gigatexels/s

521% significantly higher texture rate

22 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

700% significantly more shading units

160

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

300% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

2299% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

180th of 586

478th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.3

GeForce GTX 1060 6GB vs HD 4600 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB graphics card is better than the HD 4600 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the HD 4600 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB at 120 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB over the HD 4600.