AMD Radeon HD 6480G vs Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6480G and Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6480G

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • 2.2x more core clock speed: 444 MHz vs 200 MHz
  • 60x more pipelines: 240 vs 4
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 130 nm
  • Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 81 vs 70
  • 85.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 257 vs 3
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 15 June 2011 vs 1 November 2008
Core clock speed 444 MHz vs 200 MHz
Pipelines 240 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm vs 130 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 81 vs 70
PassMark - G3D Mark 257 vs 3

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6480G
GPU 2: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
81
70
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
257
3
Name AMD Radeon HD 6480G Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500
Geekbench - OpenCL 673
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 592
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 592
PassMark - G2D Mark 81 70
PassMark - G3D Mark 257 3
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1082
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1082
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1696
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1696

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6480G Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500

Essentials

Architecture Terascale 2 PowerVR SGX5
Code name Llano GMA 500
Launch date 15 June 2011 1 November 2008
Place in performance rating 1536 1538
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 444 MHz 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 240 4
Transistor count 1000 Million

API support

DirectX 11 10.1

Memory

Shared memory 1 yes