Intel HD Graphics 4600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Comparative analysis of Intel HD Graphics 4600 and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 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 8600 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics 4600

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 16% higher texture fill rate: 5 GTexel / s vs 4.32 GTexel / s
Around 25% higher pipelines: 20 vs 16
Around 31% better floating-point performance: 50 gflops vs 38.08 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 22 nm vs 80 nm
Around 4% lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 47 Watt
6.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 628 vs 92
3.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 315 vs 100

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 June 2013 vs 17 April 2007
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s vs 4.32 GTexel / s
Pipelines	20 vs 16
Floating-point performance	50 gflops vs 38.08 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	22 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt vs 47 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	628 vs 92
PassMark - G2D Mark	315 vs 100

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

Around 35% higher core clock speed: 540 MHz vs 400 MHz

Core clock speed	540 MHz vs 400 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel HD Graphics 4600
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

628

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

315

100

Name	Intel HD Graphics 4600	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark	628	92
PassMark - G2D Mark	315	100
Geekbench - OpenCL	3234
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 8600 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 7.5	Tesla
Code name	Haswell GT2	G84
Launch date	3 June 2013	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	1353	1348
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1250 MHz
Core clock speed	400 MHz	540 MHz
Floating-point performance	50 gflops	38.08 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	22 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	20	16
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s	4.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt	47 Watt
Transistor count	392 million	289 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)	10.0
OpenGL	4.3	3.3
Memory
Memory bus width	64 / 128 Bit	128 Bit
Shared memory	1
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory bandwidth		12.8 GB / s
Memory clock speed		800 MHz
Memory type		DDR2
Technologies
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