Intel HD 4000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

Compare Intel HD 4000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 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

74 points

223 points

201% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

2 FPS

5 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS

3 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

3 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

2 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

147 points

2083 points

1317% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

990 points

3649 points

268% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

1287 points

3524 points

173% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

287 points

2223 points

674% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

542 points

3991 points

636% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

1075 points

3524 points

227% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

650 MHz

950 MHz

46% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

5% slightly higher boost clock speed

950 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W

11% slightly lower TDP

50 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2 Gigapixels/s

7.6 Gigapixels/s

280% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigatexels/s

30.4 Gigatexels/s

89% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

128

384

200% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

700% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

525th of 586

412th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.1

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.0

4.5

HD 4000 vs GeForce GTX 660M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 660M GPU is faster than the HD 4000 in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 660M 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. 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 HD 4000 has a slightly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660M at 50 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 660M over the HD 4000.