Intel HD Graphics 5000 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

Comparative analysis of Intel HD Graphics 5000 and NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 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), 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 5000

NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics 5000

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 1 month(s) later
2.5x more pipelines: 40 vs 16
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 22 nm vs 80 nm
3.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 587 vs 149
6.9x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 221 vs 32
Around 72% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1713 vs 996
Around 72% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1713 vs 996

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 May 2013 vs 17 April 2007
Pipelines	40 vs 16
Manufacturing process technology	22 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	587 vs 149
PassMark - G2D Mark	221 vs 32
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1713 vs 996
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1713 vs 996

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

2.3x more core clock speed: 459 MHz vs 200 MHz

Core clock speed	459 MHz vs 200 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel HD Graphics 5000
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

587

149

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

221

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1713

996

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1713

996

Name	Intel HD Graphics 5000	NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	587	149
PassMark - G2D Mark	221	32
Geekbench - OpenCL	3134
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	9.563
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	490.588
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	713
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1103
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1713	996
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	713
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1103
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1713	996

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel HD Graphics 5000	NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 7.5	Tesla
Code name	Haswell GT3	G86
Launch date	27 May 2013	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	1388	1657
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$129
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz
Core clock speed	200 MHz	459 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	22 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	40	16
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt	30 Watt
Transistor count	1,300 million	210 million
Floating-point performance		29.376 gflops
Texture fill rate		3.6 billion / sec
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
Length		229 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	10.0
OpenGL	4.3	2.1
Memory
Memory bus width	64 / 128 Bit	128 Bit
Shared memory	1
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		12.8 GB / s
Memory clock speed		800 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3
Standard memory config per GPU		256 MB
Technologies
Quick Sync
SLI