NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs Intel HD 5500

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs Intel HD 5500, 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

2077 points

2133% significantly better overall score

93 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

1460% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

233 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

1163% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

2564 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

1022% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

2804 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

1328% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

2265 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

799% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

3437 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

469% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

15 W

700% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

509th of 586

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.4

GeForce GTX 1060 vs HD 5500 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 beats the HD 5500 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 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 HD 5500 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1060 over the HD 5500.