Intel HD 4000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Compare Intel HD 4000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

74 points

1261 points

1604% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

2 FPS

28 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS

17 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

19 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

14 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the HD 4000 and the GeForce GTX 680? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download GPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

147 points

8002 points

5343% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

990 points

16368 points

1553% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

1287 points

16340 points

1169% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

287 points

7720 points

2589% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

542 points

18409 points

3296% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

1075 points

18023 points

1576% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

650 MHz

1006 MHz

54% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

1058 MHz

5% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W

333% significantly lower TDP

195 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2 Gigapixels/s

33.86 Gigapixels/s

1592% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigatexels/s

135.4 Gigatexels/s

746% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

128

1536

1100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

700% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

1500% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

525th of 586

246th 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

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.0

4.5

HD 4000 vs GeForce GTX 680 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 680 graphics card is better than the HD 4000 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 680 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 680 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the HD 4000 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 680 at 195 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 680 is better than the HD 4000.