NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs Intel HD 5500

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 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

1419 points

1425% significantly better overall score

93 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

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

20 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

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points

884% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

233 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

721% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

2564 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

698% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

2804 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

773% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

2265 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

506% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

3437 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

275% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

38% slightly higher boost clock speed

850 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

1378% significantly higher pixel rate

2.55 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

269% significantly higher texture rate

20.4 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

510th 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 5500 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 960 graphics card is better than the HD 5500 in our tests.

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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the HD 5500 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960 at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 960 is faster than the HD 5500.