Intel HD 530 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

Compare Intel HD 530 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 2 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

528 points

136% significantly better overall score

223 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

Identical

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

3 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

55 FPS

53 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

4018 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

2083 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4602 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

3649 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4874 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

3524 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

5039 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

2223 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4413 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3991 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4937 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

3524 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

350 MHz

950 MHz

171% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

950 MHz

Identical

950 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

233% significantly lower TDP

50 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.85 Gigapixels/s

7.6 Gigapixels/s

166% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

22.8 Gigatexels/s

30.4 Gigatexels/s

33% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

192

384

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

433% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

322nd of 586

412th 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

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.5

HD 530 vs GeForce GTX 660M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 660M GPU is faster than the HD 530 in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 660M 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 HD 530 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660M 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 GTX 660M over the HD 530.