Intel HD 5500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

Compare Intel HD 5500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M, 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

93 points
232 points
149% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

3 FPS
6 FPS
3 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS
3 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS
4 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

0 FPS
2 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

2564 points
3590 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

2804 points
3564 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

2265 points
3852 points
70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3437 points
3955 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W
120% significantly lower TDP
33 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.55 Gigapixels/s
7.84 Gigapixels/s
207% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

20.4 Gigatexels/s
31.36 Gigatexels/s
53% significantly 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

24
32
33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

3
8
166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

504th of 586
410th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2013 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

4.4
4.6

HD 5500 vs GeForce GT 740M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GT 740M GPU is faster than the HD 5500 in gaming.

In addition, the HD 5500 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GT 740M at 33 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 740M over the HD 5500.

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