AMD Radeon R4 Graphics vs Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R4 Graphics and Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500 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 R4 Graphics

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R4 Graphics

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 7 month(s) later
4x more core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 200 MHz
32x more pipelines: 128 vs 4
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
114x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 342 vs 3
Around 41% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 99 vs 70

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	11 June 2014 vs 1 November 2008
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 200 MHz
Pipelines	128 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	342 vs 3
PassMark - G2D Mark	99 vs 70

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R4 Graphics
GPU 2: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

342

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	AMD Radeon R4 Graphics	Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500
PassMark - G3D Mark	342	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	99	70
Geekbench - OpenCL	8386
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	4.721
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	107.613
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.445
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	10.612
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	13.097
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	701
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1338
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1811
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	701
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1338
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1811

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R4 Graphics	Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	PowerVR SGX5
Code name	Beema	GMA 500
Launch date	11 June 2014	1 November 2008
Place in performance rating	1540	1538
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	800 MHz	200 MHz
Floating-point performance	204.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	128	4
Texture fill rate	6.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt
Transistor count	930 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.5
Memory
Memory type	System Shared
Shared memory		yes