Intel HD 4400 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Compare Intel HD 4400 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4 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

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

1 FPS

19 FPS

18 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

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

2299 points

16368 points

611% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

2249 points

16340 points

626% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

2138 points

18409 points

761% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

2153 points

18023 points

737% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

200 MHz

1006 MHz

403% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

950 MHz

1058 MHz

11% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

1.66 GiB

4 GiB

140% significantly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

20 W

874% significantly lower TDP

195 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

1.9 Gigapixels/s

33.86 Gigapixels/s

1682% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

19 Gigatexels/s

135.4 Gigatexels/s

612% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

160

1536

859% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

540% 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

524th 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

11.2

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.3

4.5

HD 4400 vs GeForce GTX 680 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 680 GPU is faster than the HD 4400 in gaming.

In our comparison, 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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 680 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 1.66 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the HD 4400 has a significantly lower TDP at 20 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 680 at 195 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 680 over the HD 4400.