Intel HD Graphics 520 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of Intel HD Graphics 520 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 520

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics 520

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 7 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 65 nm
8.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 125 Watt
64x more maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 512 MB

Launch date	1 September 2015 vs 1 February 2008
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 125 Watt
Maximum memory size	32 GB vs 512 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

2x more core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 300 MHz
4.7x more pipelines: 112 vs 24

Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 300 MHz
Pipelines	112 vs 24

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel HD Graphics 520
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

Name	Intel HD Graphics 520	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark	864
PassMark - G2D Mark	209
Geekbench - OpenCL	3993
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	21.852
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	143.083
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.243
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	12.958
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	28.182
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	951
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1462
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3337
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	951
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1462
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3337
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	326

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel HD Graphics 520	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 9.0	Tesla
Code name	Skylake GT2	G92
Launch date	1 September 2015	1 February 2008
Place in performance rating	1381	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1050 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	24	112
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	125 Watt
Transistor count	189 million	754 million
Floating-point performance		336.0 gflops
Texture fill rate		33.6 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x1	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		229 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	32 GB	512 MB
Memory bus width	64 / 128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory type	DDR3L / LPDDR3 / DDR4	GDDR3
Shared memory	1
Memory bandwidth		57.6 GB / s
Memory clock speed		1800 MHz
Technologies
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