NVIDIA GeForce GT 620 OEM vs Intel HD Graphics 3000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 620 OEM and Intel HD Graphics 3000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 620 OEM

Intel HD Graphics 3000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 620 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
3.8x more texture fill rate: 6.48 GTexel / s vs 1.7 GTexel / s
4x more pipelines: 48 vs 12
7.6x better floating-point performance: 155.5 gflops vs 20.4 gflops
Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 1148 vs 1137
Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1148 vs 1137
13.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1364 vs 101
13.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1364 vs 101

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2 April 2012 vs 1 February 2011
Texture fill rate	6.48 GTexel / s vs 1.7 GTexel / s
Pipelines	48 vs 12
Floating-point performance	155.5 gflops vs 20.4 gflops
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1148 vs 1137
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1148 vs 1137
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1364 vs 101
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1364 vs 101

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics 3000

Around 5% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 810 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 40 nm

Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 810 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm vs 40 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 620 OEM
GPU 2: Intel HD Graphics 3000

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1148

1137

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1148

1137

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1364

101

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1364

101

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 620 OEM	Intel HD Graphics 3000
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	2.756
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	637
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	637
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1148	1137
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1148	1137
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1364	101
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1364	101
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0
PassMark - G3D Mark		256
PassMark - G2D Mark		36

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 620 OEM	Intel HD Graphics 3000
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Generation 6.0
Code name	GF119	Sandy Bridge GT2
Launch date	2 April 2012	1 February 2011
Place in performance rating	1590	1592
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	810 MHz	850 MHz
Floating-point performance	155.5 gflops	20.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	32 nm
Pipelines	48	12
Texture fill rate	6.48 GTexel / s	1.7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	995 million
Boost clock speed		1100 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	145 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.37 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 / 128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1796 MHz
Memory type	DDR3
Shared memory		1