AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM vs Intel HD Graphics 4600

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM and Intel HD Graphics 4600 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

Intel HD Graphics 4600

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
Around 83% higher core clock speed: 730 MHz vs 400 MHz
3.1x more texture fill rate: 15.6 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
16x more pipelines: 320 vs 20
10x better floating-point performance: 499.2 gflops vs 50 gflops

Launch date	1 November 2013 vs 3 June 2013
Core clock speed	730 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	15.6 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
Pipelines	320 vs 20
Floating-point performance	499.2 gflops vs 50 gflops

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics 4600

Around 60% higher boost clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 780 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 22 nm vs 28 nm
Around 11% lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 50 Watt

Boost clock speed	1250 MHz vs 780 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	22 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM
GPU 2: Intel HD Graphics 4600

Name	AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM	Intel HD Graphics 4600
PassMark - G3D Mark		630
PassMark - G2D Mark		314
Geekbench - OpenCL		3210
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		8.844
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		171.17
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.115
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		10.385
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		12.361
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		988
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1702
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2808
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		988
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1702
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2808
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		194

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM	Intel HD Graphics 4600
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Generation 7.5
Code name	Oland	Haswell GT2
Launch date	1 November 2013	3 June 2013
Place in performance rating	not rated	1359
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	780 MHz	1250 MHz
Core clock speed	730 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	499.2 gflops	50 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	22 nm
Pipelines	320	20
Texture fill rate	15.6 GTexel / s	5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	45 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	392 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.5	4.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 / 128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3
Shared memory		1
Technologies
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