AMD Radeon R9 280 vs Intel HD 4600

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280 3 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

1280 points

820% significantly better overall score

139 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

31 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

4 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

19 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2043 points

947% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

195 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

827 MHz

106% significantly higher core clock speed

400 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

933 MHz

1100 MHz

17% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

45 W

455% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.86 Gigapixels/s

1257% significantly higher pixel rate

2.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

104.5 Gigatexels/s

374% significantly higher texture rate

22 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

1019% significantly more shading units

160

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

459% 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

248th of 594

482nd of 594

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

4.5

4.3

Radeon R9 280 vs HD 4600 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon R9 280 graphics card is better than the HD 4600 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon R9 280 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 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 R9 280 at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon R9 280 is better than the HD 4600.