ATI Radeon HD 4580 vs HD Graphics (Haswell)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1135not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 7.5 Haswell (2012)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameHaswell GT1RV635
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 October 2012 (12 years ago)20 November 2011 (13 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 cores10120
Core clock speed200 MHz796 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data378 million
Manufacturing process technology22 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data65 Watt
Texture fill rateno data6.368
Floating-point processing powerno data0.191 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data8

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 dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data190 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 typeno dataGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data512 MB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data693 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data22.18 GB/s
Shared memory+-

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 data2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.110.1 (10_1)
Shader Modelno data4.1
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2012 20 November 2011
Chip lithography 22 nm 55 nm

HD Graphics (Haswell) has an age advantage of 10 months, and a 150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics (Haswell) and Radeon HD 4580. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics (Haswell) is a notebook card while Radeon HD 4580 is a desktop one.


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