Intel HD 615 vs NVIDIA Quadro K420

Compare Intel HD 615 vs NVIDIA Quadro K420 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

139 points

49% significantly better overall score

93 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

3 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

2 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

1 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

1 FPS

Identical

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

3518 points

231% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

1060 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3612 points

139% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

1507 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3848 points

121% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

1740 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

4368 points

312% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

1060 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3043 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

1841 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3494 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

1838 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

780 MHz

160% significantly higher core clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

5 W

720% 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

477th of 586

511th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2014 July

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

4.6

4.5

HD 615 vs Quadro K420 comparison

For gaming, the Quadro K420 graphics card is better than the HD 615 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Quadro K420 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 HD 615 has a significantly lower TDP at 5 W when compared to the Quadro K420 at 41 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Quadro K420 over the HD 615.