Intel HD 4600 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

Compare Intel HD 4600 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720, 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

139 points
148 points
6% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

4 FPS
Identical
4 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS
Identical
2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS
2 FPS
0 FPS slightly 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 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3076 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
2372 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

2810 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
2361 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3204 points
37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
2331 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

2573 points
3346 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

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

2.2 Gigapixels/s
3.97 Gigapixels/s
80% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

22 Gigatexels/s
38% slightly higher texture rate
15.89 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

160
192
20% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

20
25% slightly more texture mapping units
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

2
16
700% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

477th of 586
468th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2017 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.3
4.6

HD 4600 vs GeForce GT 720 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GT 720 graphics card is better than the HD 4600 in our tests.

In addition, the HD 4600 has a slightly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GT 720 at 50 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GT 720 over the HD 4600.

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