Should i pay attention to benchmarks?

manne11

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Ok so my friend gave me his old gts 450 i looked up the specs and game play with the card and the card can handle many games on medium/high. But before i got the card i used the integrated intel hd 4600 and used to run passmark performance test benchmarks, on the intel hd 4600 i used to get 70-100+fps on the dx 10 test with the planes. On my gts 450 i get around 30-70 fps. Why does a card that beats the intel hd 4600 spec-wise get low frame rates on benchmarks did i install the drivers wrong or something.
 


Depends what benchmarks you're looking at and how you interpret it matters. Like this is a good benchmark: http://www.futuremark.com/hardware/gpu/Intel+HD+Graphics+4600/review
 
It might depend on the game you are playing. If you are playing any modern-day game, it'll likely use over 1GB vRAM, and the Intel HD 4600 uses your computer's main RAM as its vRAM, so it theoretically has a ton of vRAM. The 450 has 1GB vRAM so anything higher usage might cause trouble.

But it should still beat 4600, the above is just one theory I have.
 


why does it beat the gts 450? http://www.futuremark.com/hardware/gpu/NVIDIA+GeForce+GTS+450/review
 


Since the AMD Radeon HD 6670 is much better than the Intel Hd 4600, and the 450 is better than the AMD Radeon HD 6670