Intel HD 4600 vs AMD Radeon HD 8490

Compare Intel HD 4600 vs AMD Radeon HD 8490 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

1444% significantly better overall score

9 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

4 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

1 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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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3076 points

242% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

897 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3204 points

267% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

872 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

400 MHz

875 MHz

118% significantly higher core clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W

35 W

28% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

478th of 586

570th of 586

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.3

4.4

HD 4600 vs Radeon HD 8490 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the HD 4600 beats the Radeon HD 8490 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon HD 8490 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.

In addition, the Radeon HD 8490 has a slightly lower TDP at 35 W when compared to the HD 4600 at 45 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the HD 4600 is better than the Radeon HD 8490.