Intel HD Graphics 4600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 305M

Comparative analysis of Intel HD Graphics 4600 and NVIDIA GeForce 305M 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 Intel HD Graphics 4600

• Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 4 month(s) later
• Around 19% higher texture fill rate: 5 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s
• Around 25% higher pipelines: 20 vs 16
• Around 36% better floating-point performance: 50 gflops vs 36.8 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 22 nm vs 40 nm
• 4.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 630 vs 151
• 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 314 vs 149
• Around 62% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 3210 vs 1987

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 305M

• 2.9x more core clock speed: 1150 MHz vs 400 MHz
• 3.2x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 45 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel HD Graphics 4600
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 305M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	630 151
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	314 149
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	3210 1987

Compare specifications (specs)