Intel HD Graphics 500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2

Comparative analysis of Intel HD Graphics 500 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2 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 4 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
  • 28.3x lower typical power consumption: 6 Watt vs 170 Watt
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2x 1 GB
Launch date 1 September 2015 vs 25 January 2011
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 6 Watt vs 170 Watt
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2x 1 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2

  • 4.3x more core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 200 MHz
  • 28.3x more texture fill rate: 2x 54.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 9 GTexel / s
  • 64x more pipelines: 2x 384 vs 12
  • 18.1x better floating-point performance: 2x 1,305.6 gflops vs 144.0 gflops
  • 6x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 1.3 vs 0.215
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 850 MHz vs 200 MHz
Texture fill rate 2x 54.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 9 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2x 384 vs 12
Floating-point performance 2x 1,305.6 gflops vs 144.0 gflops
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.3 vs 0.215

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel HD Graphics 500
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
0.215
1.3
Name Intel HD Graphics 500 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2
PassMark - G3D Mark 299
PassMark - G2D Mark 81
Geekbench - OpenCL 908
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 1.3
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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2

Essentials

Architecture Generation 9.0 Fermi 2.0
Code name Apollo Lake GT1 GF114
Launch date 1 September 2015 25 January 2011
Place in performance rating 1652 1653
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 750 MHz
Core clock speed 200 MHz 850 MHz
Floating-point performance 144.0 gflops 2x 1,305.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 12 2x 384
Texture fill rate 9 GTexel / s 2x 54.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 6 Watt 170 Watt
Transistor count 189 million 1,950 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 3x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x1 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 292 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2x 1 GB
Memory bus width 64 / 128 Bit 2x 256 Bit
Memory type DDR3L / LPDDR3 / LPDDR4 GDDR5
Shared memory 1
Memory bandwidth 2x 128.3 GB / s
Memory clock speed 4008 MHz

Technologies

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