Intel HD Graphics 4600 vs Intel GMA X4500

Comparative analysis of Intel HD Graphics 4600 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.

Intel HD Graphics 4600

Intel GMA X4500

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics 4600

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 9 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 22 nm vs 65 nm

Launch date	3 June 2013 vs 1 September 2008
Manufacturing process technology	22 nm vs 65 nm

Reasons to consider the Intel GMA X4500

Around 33% higher core clock speed: 533 MHz vs 400 MHz
3.5x lower typical power consumption: 13 Watt vs 45 Watt

Core clock speed	533 MHz vs 400 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	13 Watt vs 45 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel HD Graphics 4600
GPU 2: Intel GMA X4500

Name	Intel HD Graphics 4600	Intel GMA X4500
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)

	Intel HD Graphics 4600	Intel GMA X4500
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 7.5	Generation 5.0
Code name	Haswell GT2	Eaglelake
Launch date	3 June 2013	1 September 2008
Place in performance rating	1359	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1250 MHz
Core clock speed	400 MHz	533 MHz
Floating-point performance	50 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	22 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	20
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt	13 Watt
Transistor count	392 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	10.0
OpenGL	4.3	2.0
Memory
Memory bus width	64 / 128 Bit
Shared memory	1
Technologies
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