Intel HD Graphics 500 vs AMD FirePro M3900

Comparative analysis of Intel HD Graphics 500 and AMD FirePro M3900 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).

Intel HD Graphics 500

AMD FirePro M3900

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics 500

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 50% higher texture fill rate: 9 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
3.3x lower typical power consumption: 6 Watt vs 20 Watt
8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 1 GB

Launch date	1 September 2015 vs 19 October 2010
Texture fill rate	9 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	6 Watt vs 20 Watt
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 1 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro M3900

3.8x more core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 200 MHz
13.3x more pipelines: 160 vs 12
Around 67% better floating-point performance: 240 gflops vs 144.0 gflops
4.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 4446 vs 911

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	750 MHz vs 200 MHz
Pipelines	160 vs 12
Floating-point performance	240 gflops vs 144.0 gflops
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	4446 vs 911

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel HD Graphics 500
GPU 2: AMD FirePro M3900

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

911

4446

Name	Intel HD Graphics 500	AMD FirePro M3900
PassMark - G3D Mark	300
PassMark - G2D Mark	80
Geekbench - OpenCL	911	4446
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	3.525
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	35.665
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.215
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	2.987
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	4.154
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	488
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	579
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1122
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	488
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	579
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1122

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel HD Graphics 500	AMD FirePro M3900
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 9.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	Apollo Lake GT1	Seymour
Launch date	1 September 2015	19 October 2010
Place in performance rating	1658	1661
Type	Laptop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	750 MHz	750 MHz
Core clock speed	200 MHz	750 MHz
Floating-point performance	144.0 gflops	240 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	12	160
Texture fill rate	9 GTexel / s	6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	6 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	189 million	370 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x1	PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus support		n / a
Form factor		chip-down
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	64 / 128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory type	DDR3L / LPDDR3 / LPDDR4	GDDR3
Shared memory	1	0
Memory bandwidth		14 GB / s
Memory clock speed		1800 MHz
Technologies
Quick Sync
AMD Eyefinity