Intel HD Graphics P630 vs NVIDIA GeForce 945A

Comparative analysis of Intel HD Graphics P630 and NVIDIA GeForce 945A 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics P630

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2.2x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 33 Watt
Launch date 5 August 2016 vs 13 March 2015
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 33 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 945A

  • 3.6x more core clock speed: 1072 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • Around 2% higher boost clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 1150 MHz
  • 16x more pipelines: 384 vs 24
  • Around 18% higher maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1740 MB
  • Around 56% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1852 vs 1184
  • 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 716 vs 317
  • 6.6x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 32359 vs 4933
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1072 MHz vs 300 MHz
Boost clock speed 1176 MHz vs 1150 MHz
Pipelines 384 vs 24
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1740 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1852 vs 1184
PassMark - G2D Mark 716 vs 317
Geekbench - OpenCL 32359 vs 4933

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel HD Graphics P630
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 945A

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1184
1852
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
317
716
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
4933
32359
Name Intel HD Graphics P630 NVIDIA GeForce 945A
PassMark - G3D Mark 1184 1852
PassMark - G2D Mark 317 716
Geekbench - OpenCL 4933 32359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 979
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 979
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2158
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2158
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3049
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3049
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 28.865
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 381.898
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.991
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 30.793
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 107.63

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel HD Graphics P630 NVIDIA GeForce 945A

Essentials

Architecture Generation 9.5 Maxwell
Code name Kaby Lake GT2 GM108
Launch date 5 August 2016 13 March 2015
Place in performance rating 1005 592
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1150 MHz 1176 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 1072 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 24 384
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 33 Watt
Transistor count 189 million
Floating-point performance 903.2 gflops
Texture fill rate 28.22 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x1 PCIe 3.0 x8

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1740 MB 2 GB
Memory bus width 64 / 128 Bit 64 Bit
Memory type DDR3L / LPDDR3 / DDR4 DDR3
Shared memory 1
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz

Technologies

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