NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs Intel HD 4000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs Intel HD 4000, 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

1419 points

1817% significantly better overall score

74 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

2 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

5868% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

147 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

2028% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

990 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

1638% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

1287 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

2956% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

287 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

3552% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

542 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

1839% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

1075 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

73% significantly higher core clock speed

650 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

17% slightly higher boost clock speed

1000 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

37.7 Gigapixels/s

1784% significantly higher pixel rate

2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

371% significantly higher texture rate

16 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

700% significantly more shading units

128

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

1500% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586

525th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.0

GeForce GTX 960 vs HD 4000 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 960 GPU is faster than the HD 4000 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 960 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 960 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the HD 4000 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 960 is better than the HD 4000.