Intel UHD Graphics 600 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

Comparative analysis of Intel UHD Graphics 600 and AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 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 UHD Graphics 600

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel UHD Graphics 600

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 5 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
60x lower typical power consumption: 5 Watt vs 300 Watt

Launch date	11 December 2017 vs 8 July 2011
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	5 Watt vs 300 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

4.5x more core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 200 MHz
186.7x more pipelines: 2x 1120 vs 12
4.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 1.807 vs 0.427

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	900 MHz vs 200 MHz
Pipelines	2x 1120 vs 12
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.807 vs 0.427

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel UHD Graphics 600
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

0.427

1.807

Name	Intel UHD Graphics 600	AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	319
PassMark - G2D Mark	92
Geekbench - OpenCL	1004
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	5.952
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	56.77
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.427	1.807
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	5.876
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	6.882
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	476
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1000
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1701
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	476
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1000
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1701
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel UHD Graphics 600	AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 9.5	TeraScale 2
Code name	Gemini Lake GT1	Barts
Launch date	11 December 2017	8 July 2011
Place in performance rating	1625	1622
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$520
Technical info
Boost clock speed	750 MHz
Core clock speed	200 MHz	900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	12	2x 1120
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	5 Watt	300 Watt
Transistor count	189 million	1,700 million
Floating-point performance		2x 2,016.0 gflops
Texture fill rate		2x 50.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x1	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		304 mm
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Memory bus width	64 / 128 Bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory type	DDR4 / LPDDR4	GDDR5
Shared memory	1
Maximum RAM amount		2x 1 GB
Memory bandwidth		2x 134.4 GB / s
Memory clock speed		4200 MHz
Technologies
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