HD Graphics P4600 vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated959
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data1.29
ArchitectureGen. 5 Arrandale (2010)Generation 7.5 (2013)
GPU code nameGMA HDHaswell GT2
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date10 January 2010 (14 years ago)1 June 2013 (11 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores12160
Core clock speed500 MHz350 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1200 MHz
Number of transistorsno data392 million
Manufacturing process technology45 nm22 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt84 Watt
Texture fill rateno data24.00
Floating-point processing powerno data0.384 TFLOPS
ROPsno data2
TMUsno data20

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataIGP
Widthno dataIGP

VRAM capacity and type

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 typeno dataSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus widthno dataSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
Shared memory+no data

Connectivity and outputs

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 Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX1012 (11_1)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.3
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.1.80

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 January 2010 1 June 2013
Chip lithography 45 nm 22 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 84 Watt

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics has 140% lower power consumption.

HD Graphics P4600, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 104.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics and HD Graphics P4600. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics is a notebook card while HD Graphics P4600 is a desktop one.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics
Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics
Intel HD Graphics P4600
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