AMD Radeon HD 6470M vs Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 600

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6470M and Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 600 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 6470M

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 600

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6470M

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later
Around 75% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 400 MHz
40x more pipelines: 160 vs 4
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 45 nm
37.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 226 vs 6
Around 81% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 105 vs 58

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 January 2011 vs 1 May 2010
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 400 MHz
Pipelines	160 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 45 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	226 vs 6
PassMark - G2D Mark	105 vs 58

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6470M
GPU 2: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 600

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

226

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

105

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6470M	Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 600
PassMark - G3D Mark	226	6
PassMark - G2D Mark	105	58
Geekbench - OpenCL	729
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	2.282
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	112.819
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.276
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	5.671
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	23.025
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	589
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1251
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1881
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	589
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1251
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1881

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6470M	Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 600
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	PowerVR SGX5
Code name	Seymour	GMA 600
Launch date	4 January 2011	1 May 2010
Launch price (MSRP)	$569.99
Place in performance rating	1579	1581
Price now	$569.99
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	0.72
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	224 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	45 nm
Pipelines	160	4
Texture fill rate	5.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count	370 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3
Shared memory	0	yes