Intel HD Graphics (Skylake) vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600

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General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)Gen. 9 Skylake (2015−2016)
GPU code nameNV31Skylake GT1
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date6 March 2003 (21 year old)1 September 2015 (8 years old)
Current price$124 $390

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data12
Core clock speed325 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data800 MHz
Number of transistors80 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology130 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)37 Wattno data
Texture fill rate1.300no data

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce FX 5600 and HD Graphics (Skylake) compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

InterfaceAGP 8xno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDRDDR3L/LPDDR3
Maximum RAM amount128 MBno data
Memory bus width128 Bit64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth8 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Videono data

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Syncno data+

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0a12_1
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)no data
OpenCLN/Ano data
VulkanN/Ano data

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 6 March 2003 1 September 2015
Chip lithography 130 nm 14 nm

We couldn't decide between GeForce FX 5600 and HD Graphics (Skylake). We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce FX 5600 is a desktop card while HD Graphics (Skylake) is a notebook one.


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