AMD Radeon R9 270 vs Intel HD 4600

Compare AMD Radeon R9 270 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

807 points

480% 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

12 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

17 FPS

15 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

1610 points

725% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

195 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22331 points

625% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

3076 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

22701 points

608% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3204 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

125% significantly higher core clock speed

400 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

925 MHz

1100 MHz

18% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

45 W

233% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.6 Gigapixels/s

1245% significantly higher pixel rate

2.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

74 Gigatexels/s

236% significantly higher texture rate

22 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

700% significantly more shading units

160

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

300% 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

280th of 586

476th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 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

4.6

4.3

Radeon R9 270 vs HD 4600 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R9 270 GPU is faster than the HD 4600 in gaming.

The Radeon R9 270 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. Despite this, the HD 4600 has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the HD 4600 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon R9 270 at 150 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon R9 270 is better than the HD 4600.