Intel HD Graphics 4600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of Intel HD Graphics 4600 and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition 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 8800 GT Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics 4600

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 4 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 22 nm vs 65 nm
2.8x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 125 Watt

Launch date	3 June 2013 vs 1 February 2008
Manufacturing process technology	22 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt vs 125 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

Around 50% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 400 MHz
6.7x more texture fill rate: 33.6 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
5.6x more pipelines: 112 vs 20
6.7x better floating-point performance: 336.0 gflops vs 50 gflops

Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	33.6 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
Pipelines	112 vs 20
Floating-point performance	336.0 gflops vs 50 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel HD Graphics 4600
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

Name	Intel HD Graphics 4600	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
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	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 7.5	Tesla
Code name	Haswell GT2	G92
Launch date	3 June 2013	1 February 2008
Place in performance rating	1359	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1250 MHz
Core clock speed	400 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	50 gflops	336.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	22 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	20	112
Texture fill rate	5 GTexel / s	33.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt	125 Watt
Transistor count	392 million	754 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		229 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	10.0
OpenGL	4.3	3.3
Memory
Memory bus width	64 / 128 Bit	256 Bit
Shared memory	1
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory bandwidth		57.6 GB / s
Memory clock speed		1800 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3
Technologies
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