Intel HD 5500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

Compare Intel HD 5500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 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

93 points

2457 points

2541% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

3 FPS

47 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS

40 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

31 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

0 FPS

33 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

2564 points

36416 points

1320% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

2804 points

37241 points

1228% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

2265 points

36494 points

1511% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3437 points

35697 points

938% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1506 MHz

401% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

850 MHz

1709 MHz

101% significantly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

700% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.55 Gigapixels/s

82.03 Gigapixels/s

3116% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

20.4 Gigatexels/s

136.7 Gigatexels/s

570% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

192

1280

566% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

233% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

1500% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

507th of 586

180th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.6

HD 5500 vs GeForce GTX 1060 6GB benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB beats the HD 5500 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 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 GeForce GTX 1060 6GB also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the HD 5500 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is faster than the HD 5500.