Intel HD 4000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

Compare Intel HD 4000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M, 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

74 points

121 points

63% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

2 FPS

3 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS

2 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

Identical

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

Identical

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

990 points

2056 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

542 points

2610 points

381% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

650 MHz

719 MHz

10% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

31% slightly higher boost clock speed

758 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W

33 W

36% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2 Gigapixels/s

3.03 Gigapixels/s

51% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigatexels/s

31% slightly higher texture rate

12.13 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

128

192

49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

519th of 586

487th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.0

4.6

HD 4000 vs GeForce GT 720M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GT 720M GPU is faster than the HD 4000 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GT 720M has a slightly 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. Despite this, the HD 4000 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 GeForce GT 720M has a slightly lower TDP at 33 W when compared to the HD 4000 at 45 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GT 720M is better than the HD 4000.