Intel HD Graphics 500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

Comparative analysis of Intel HD Graphics 500 and NVIDIA GeForce 8600M 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics 500

• Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 4 month(s) later
• 2.5x more texture fill rate: 9 GTexel / s vs 3.6 GTexel / s
• 5x better floating-point performance: 144.0 gflops vs 28.8 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 80 nm
• 3.3x lower typical power consumption: 6 Watt vs 20 Watt
• 16x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 512 MB
• 4.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 298 vs 70
• 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 80 vs 35
• Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1122 vs 1095
• Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1122 vs 1095

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

• 2.3x more core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 200 MHz
• Around 33% higher pipelines: 16 vs 12

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel HD Graphics 500
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	298 70
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	80 35
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1122 1095
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1122 1095

Compare specifications (specs)