Intel HD Graphics 5500 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000

Comparative analysis of Intel HD Graphics 5500 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Intel HD Graphics 5500

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics 5500

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 5 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 130 nm
9.5x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 142 Watt
5.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 591 vs 101
3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 232 vs 78

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 September 2014 vs 1 April 2004
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 142 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	591 vs 101
PassMark - G2D Mark	232 vs 78

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000

3.8x more core clock speed: 375 MHz vs 100 MHz

Core clock speed	375 MHz vs 100 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel HD Graphics 5500
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

591

101

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

232

Name	Intel HD Graphics 5500	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000
PassMark - G3D Mark	591	101
PassMark - G2D Mark	232	78
Geekbench - OpenCL	2266
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	3.422
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	195.811
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	781
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	754
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1397
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	781
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	754
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1397
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	233

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel HD Graphics 5500	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 8.0	Curie
Code name	Broadwell GT2	NV40 A1
Launch date	5 September 2014	1 April 2004
Place in performance rating	1484	1482
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$2,199
Technical info
Boost clock speed	950 MHz
Core clock speed	100 MHz	375 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	24
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	142 Watt
Transistor count	1,300 million	222 million
Texture fill rate		4.5 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x1	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		2x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Memory
Memory bus width	64 / 128 Bit	256 Bit
Shared memory	1
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		32.0 GB / s
Memory clock speed		1000 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3
Technologies
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