Intel HD Graphics vs AMD Radeon R7 Mobile Graphics

Comparative analysis of Intel HD Graphics and AMD Radeon R7 Mobile Graphics videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 month(s) later
  • Around 6% higher boost clock speed: 850 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 15x lower typical power consumption: 6 Watt vs 90 Watt
Launch date 5 January 2015 vs 17 February 2014
Boost clock speed 850 MHz vs 800 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 6 Watt vs 90 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 Mobile Graphics

  • Around 85% higher core clock speed: 554 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • Around 87% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 877 vs 470
  • 109.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 877 vs 8
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 554 MHz vs 300 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 877 vs 470
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 877 vs 8

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel HD Graphics
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 Mobile Graphics

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
470
877
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8
877
Name Intel HD Graphics AMD Radeon R7 Mobile Graphics
PassMark - G3D Mark 464
PassMark - G2D Mark 193
Geekbench - OpenCL 5315
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 470 877
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 8 877
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1131
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1131
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2817
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2817

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel HD Graphics AMD Radeon R7 Mobile Graphics

Essentials

Architecture Generation 8.0 GCN 2.0
Code name Broadwell GT1 Spectre
Launch date 5 January 2015 17 February 2014
Place in performance rating 1384 1385
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 850 MHz 800 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 554 MHz
Floating-point performance 15.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 6
Texture fill rate 1.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 6 Watt 90 Watt
Transistor count 1,300 million 2,410 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x1 IGP

API support

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

Memory

Memory type System Shared