Intel HD 4000 vs NVIDIA Quadro K420

Compare Intel HD 4000 vs NVIDIA Quadro K420 1 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

93 points

25% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

2 FPS

Identical

2 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS

Identical

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

1 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 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

147 points

1060 points

621% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

990 points

1507 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

1287 points

1740 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

287 points

1060 points

269% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

542 points

1841 points

239% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

1075 points

1838 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

650 MHz

780 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W

41 W

9% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2 Gigapixels/s

3.50 Gigapixels/s

75% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigatexels/s

14% slightly higher texture rate

14.02 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

700% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

523rd of 586

506th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

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 Quadro K420 comparison

For gaming, the Quadro K420 graphics card is better than the HD 4000 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Quadro K420 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.

In addition, the Quadro K420 has a slightly lower TDP at 41 W when compared to the HD 4000 at 45 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Quadro K420 is faster than the HD 4000.