AMD Radeon RX 590 vs Intel GMA X4500

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 590 and Intel GMA X4500 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 590

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • 2.8x more core clock speed: 1469 MHz vs 533 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 65 nm
Launch date 15 November 2018 vs 1 September 2008
Core clock speed 1469 MHz vs 533 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 65 nm

Reasons to consider the Intel GMA X4500

  • 13.5x lower typical power consumption: 13 Watt vs 175 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 13 Watt vs 175 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 590
GPU 2: Intel GMA X4500

Name AMD Radeon RX 590 Intel GMA X4500
PassMark - G3D Mark 9374
PassMark - G2D Mark 789
Geekbench - OpenCL 45591
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 137.469
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2083.862
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 12.352
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 139.477
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 762.142
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 13383
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 13383
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1081

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 590 Intel GMA X4500

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Generation 5.0
Code name Polaris 30 Eaglelake
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
Launch date 15 November 2018 1 September 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $279
Place in performance rating 280 not rated
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1545 MHz
Compute units 36
Core clock speed 1469 MHz 533 MHz
Floating-point performance 7.1 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 65 nm
Pixel fill rate 49.54 GP/s
Render output units 32
Stream Processors 2304
Texture fill rate 222.48 GTexel/s
Texture Units 144
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 175 Watt 13 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 241 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.5 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 bit
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support