Intel HD 4600 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Compare Intel HD 4600 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

139 points

1261 points

807% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

4 FPS

28 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

17 FPS

15 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

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

195 points

2038 points

945% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3076 points

16368 points

432% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

2810 points

16340 points

481% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3204 points

18409 points

474% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

2573 points

18023 points

600% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

400 MHz

1006 MHz

151% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1100 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

1058 MHz

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

2.2 Gigapixels/s

33.86 Gigapixels/s

1439% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

22 Gigatexels/s

135.4 Gigatexels/s

515% 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

479th 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

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.3

4.5

HD 4600 vs GeForce GTX 680 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 680 beats the HD 4600 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 680 has a significantly 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. Despite this, the HD 4600 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the HD 4600 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 680 is faster than the HD 4600.