Intel HD Graphics 4600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS

Comparative analysis of Intel HD Graphics 4600 and NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS 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

NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics 4600

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 4 month(s) later
2.8x more texture fill rate: 5 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 22 nm vs 90 nm
27.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 630 vs 23
3.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 314 vs 98

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 June 2013 vs 18 January 2006
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	22 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	630 vs 23
PassMark - G2D Mark	314 vs 98

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS

Around 13% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 400 MHz

Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 400 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel HD Graphics 4600
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

630

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

314

Name	Intel HD Graphics 4600	NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	630	23
PassMark - G2D Mark	314	98
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	NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 7.5	Curie
Code name	Haswell GT2	G72
Launch date	3 June 2013	18 January 2006
Place in performance rating	1359	1416
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1250 MHz
Core clock speed	400 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	50 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	22 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	20
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s	1.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt
Transistor count	392 million	112 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.3	2.1
Memory
Memory bus width	64 / 128 Bit	64 Bit
Shared memory	1
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		5.34 GB / s
Memory clock speed		668 MHz
Memory type		DDR2
Technologies
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