NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs Intel HD 530

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs Intel HD 530, 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

168% significantly better overall score

528 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

43 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

3 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

55 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points

489% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

389 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

118% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

4018 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

357% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4602 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

359% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4874 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

5039 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

348% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4413 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

322% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4937 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

221% significantly higher core clock speed

350 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

24% slightly higher boost clock speed

950 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

15 W

700% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

1222% significantly higher pixel rate

2.85 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

230% significantly higher texture rate

22.8 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

433% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

166% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

966% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586

322nd 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

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.4

GeForce GTX 960 vs HD 530 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 960 beats the HD 530 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that 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 530 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 960 is faster than the HD 530.