Intel HD 4600 vs NVIDIA Quadro K600

Compare Intel HD 4600 vs NVIDIA Quadro K600 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

139 points

113% significantly better overall score

65 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

4 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

2 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

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

0 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3076 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

1572 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

2810 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

1753 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3204 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

1810 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

2573 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

1928 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

400 MHz

876 MHz

119% significantly 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

2.2 Gigapixels/s

3.50 Gigapixels/s

59% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

22 Gigatexels/s

56% significantly higher texture rate

14.02 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

25% slightly more texture mapping units

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

477th of 586

529th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

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 Quadro K600 specs and performance

For gaming, the HD 4600 graphics card is better than the Quadro K600 in our tests.

Our database shows that the Quadro K600 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 Quadro K600 has a slightly lower TDP at 41 W when compared to the HD 4600 at 45 W. 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 Quadro K600.