NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs Intel HD 4000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 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

2262 points

2956% significantly better overall score

74 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

2 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 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

28 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

9148% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

147 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

2844% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

990 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

2550% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

1287 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595 points

4636% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

287 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

5301% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

542 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

2909% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

1075 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

61% 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

145 W

45 W

222% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

3198% significantly higher pixel rate

2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

665% significantly higher texture rate

16 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

1200% significantly more shading units

128

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

550% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

2700% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

525th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

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 970 vs HD 4000 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 GPU is faster than the HD 4000 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 970 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 970 also has a slightly 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 4000 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 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 970 over the HD 4000.