NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs Intel HD 4400

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs Intel HD 4400 2 GB, 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

33 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

1 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 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

1168% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

2299 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

1416% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

2249 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

1269% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

2138 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

1402% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

2153 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

424% significantly higher core clock speed

200 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

24% slightly higher boost clock speed

950 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

140% significantly more memory

1.66 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

20 W

625% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

3372% significantly higher pixel rate

1.9 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

544% significantly higher texture rate

19 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

939% significantly more shading units

160

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

420% 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

528th 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

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.3

GeForce GTX 970 vs HD 4400 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 GPU is faster than the HD 4400 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 970 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 970 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 970 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 1.66 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the HD 4400 has a significantly lower TDP at 20 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 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 970 is better than the HD 4400.