AMD Radeon HD 8790M
VS
Intel HD Graphics 4600
AMD Radeon HD 8790M
VS
Intel HD Graphics 4600

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon HD 8790M and Intel HD Graphics 4600. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

579
Place in performance rating
755
GCN
Architecture
Gen. 7.5 Haswell
Mars
Code name
Haswell GT2
Laptop
Type
Laptop
16 November 2012 (9 years ago)
Release date
1 June 2013 (8 years ago)
$460
Price now
$464
0.28
Value for money
0.07
Mars XTX
GPU code name
Haswell GT2
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon HD 8790M and Intel HD Graphics 4600 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

384
Pipelines
160
850 MHz
Core clock speed
200 MHz
900 MHz
Boost Clock
1350 MHz
950 million
Transistor count
392 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
22 nm
no data
Power consumption (TDP)
45 Watt
21.60
Texture fill rate
27.00
691.2 gflops
Floating-point performance
50 gflops
384
Pipelines / CUDA cores
20
900 MHz
Boost clock speed
1350 MHz
950 million
Number of transistors
392 million
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Thermal design power (TDP)
45 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon HD 8790M and Intel HD Graphics 4600.

MXM-A (3.0)
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
None
Supplementary power connectors
no data
medium sized
Laptop size
no data

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon HD 8790M and Intel HD Graphics 4600 can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
System Shared
2 GB
Maximum RAM amount
no data
128 Bit
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
4500 MHz
Memory clock speed
no data
64 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
no data
-
Shared memory
+

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon HD 8790M and Intel HD Graphics 4600, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs

Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon HD 8790M and Intel HD Graphics 4600 is the additional functionality.

no data
Quick Sync
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon HD 8790M and Intel HD Graphics 4600. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.3
no data
Vulkan
1.1.80
no data
Shader Model
5.1
no data
OpenCL
1.2

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon HD 8790M and Intel HD Graphics 4600 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon HD 8790M or Intel HD Graphics 4600 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8790M
Intel HD Graphics 4600
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8790M
Intel HD Graphics 4600
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8790M
Intel HD Graphics 4600
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8790M
Intel HD Graphics 4600
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8790M
Intel HD Graphics 4600
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 8790M

2.75% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($460 vs $464)

More pipelines (384 vs 160)

Advantages of Intel HD Graphics 4600

Finer manufacturing process technology (22 nm vs 28 nm)

So, AMD Radeon HD 8790M or Intel HD Graphics 4600?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon HD 8790M .

AMD Radeon HD 8790M versus Intel HD Graphics 4600 performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

5.0 Out of 1 CpusData Score AMD Radeon HD 8790M
3.3 Out of 3 CpusData Score Intel HD Graphics 4600