Intel HD 5500 vs NVIDIA Quadro K600

Compare Intel HD 5500 vs NVIDIA Quadro K600 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

93 points

43% significantly better overall score

65 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

3 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

2 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS

0 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

0 FPS

Identical

0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

2564 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

1572 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

2804 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

1753 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

2265 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

1810 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3437 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

1928 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

876 MHz

191% significantly higher core clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

173% significantly lower TDP

41 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.55 Gigapixels/s

3.50 Gigapixels/s

37% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

20.4 Gigatexels/s

45% significantly higher texture rate

14.02 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

192

Identical

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% significantly 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

505th of 586

529th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.5

HD 5500 vs Quadro K600 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the HD 5500 beats the Quadro K600 in gaming performance.

The Quadro K600 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 5500 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the Quadro K600 at 41 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 HD 5500 over the Quadro K600.