AMD Radeon R7 260X vs Intel HD 4600

Compare AMD Radeon R7 260X 2 GB vs Intel HD 4600, 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

779 points

460% significantly better overall score

139 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

19 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

4 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1500 points

669% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

195 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

175% significantly higher core clock speed

400 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

1100 MHz

10% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

115 W

45 W

155% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

17.6 Gigapixels/s

700% significantly higher pixel rate

2.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

61.6 Gigatexels/s

180% significantly higher texture rate

22 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

896

459% significantly more shading units

160

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

180% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

700% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

284th of 586

478th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

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

4.3

Radeon R7 260X vs HD 4600 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R7 260X GPU is faster than the HD 4600 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon R7 260X 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. Despite this, the HD 4600 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the HD 4600 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon R7 260X at 115 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R7 260X is faster than the HD 4600.