Radeon HD 8450 OEM vs HD Graphics 4600

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking917not rated
Place by popularity64not in top-100
Power efficiency6.30no data
ArchitectureGeneration 7.5 (2013)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameHaswell GT2Caicos
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date27 May 2013 (11 years ago)8 January 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 cores160160
Core clock speed400 MHz625 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHzno data
Number of transistors392 million370 million
Manufacturing process technology22 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate22.005.000
Floating-point processing power0.352 TFLOPS0.2 TFLOPS
ROPs24
TMUs208

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).

InterfaceRing BusPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeSystem SharedDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared1 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared667 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data10.67 GB/s
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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

Supported technologies

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

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.34.4
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan+N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 May 2013 8 January 2013
Chip lithography 22 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 18 Watt

HD Graphics 4600 has an age advantage of 4 months, and a 81.8% more advanced lithography process.

HD 8450 OEM, on the other hand, has 150% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics 4600 and Radeon HD 8450 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics 4600 is a notebook card while Radeon HD 8450 OEM is a desktop one.


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Intel HD Graphics 4600
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