Intel HD 500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 610

Compare Intel HD 500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 610, 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

46 points
64% significantly better overall score
28 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

1 FPS
0 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS
0 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
0 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

1 FPS
0 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
0 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

0 FPS
0 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

1070 points
1164 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

913 points
1280 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

6 W
383% significantly lower TDP
29 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

1.3 Gigapixels/s
1.62 Gigapixels/s
24% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

7.8 Gigatexels/s
20% slightly higher texture rate
6.48 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

96
100% significantly more shading units
48

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

12
49% significantly more texture mapping units
8

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

2
4
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

548th of 586
559th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 September
2012 April

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

4.6
4.6

HD 500 vs GeForce GT 610 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GT 610 beats the HD 500 in gaming performance.

In addition, the HD 500 has a significantly lower TDP at 6 W when compared to the GeForce GT 610 at 29 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 GeForce GT 610 over the HD 500.

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