Intel HD 4000 vs Intel HD 4600

Compare Intel HD 4000 vs Intel HD 4600, 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

139 points

87% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

2 FPS

4 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

3076 points

210% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

1287 points

2810 points

118% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

542 points

3204 points

491% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

1075 points

2573 points

139% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

650 MHz

62% significantly higher core clock speed

400 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

1100 MHz

10% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W

Identical

45 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2 Gigapixels/s

2.2 Gigapixels/s

10% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigatexels/s

22 Gigatexels/s

37% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

128

160

25% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

527th of 586

474th of 586

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.0

4.3

HD 4000 vs HD 4600 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the HD 4600 beats the HD 4000 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the HD 4000 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 4600 has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, both the HD 4000 and the HD 4600 have an identical TDP. 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 HD 4600 over the HD 4000.