NVIDIA GeForce 6500
VS
Intel HD Graphics 4000
NVIDIA GeForce 6500
VS
Intel HD Graphics 4000

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 6500 and Intel HD Graphics 4000. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
880
Curie
Architecture
Gen. 7 Ivy Bridge
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Code name
Ivy Bridge GT2
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Type
Laptop
1 October 2005 (16 years ago)
Release date
23 March 2011 (10 years ago)
$343
Price now
$91
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Value for money
0.13
NV44 A2
GPU code name
Ivy Bridge
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce 6500 and Intel HD Graphics 4000 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

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Pipelines
128
400 MHz
Core clock speed
350 MHz
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Boost Clock
1300 MHz
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Transistor count
1,200 million
110 nm
Manufacturing process technology
22 nm
1.600
Texture fill rate
20.80
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Floating-point performance
33.6 gflops
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
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Boost clock speed
1350 MHz
75 million
Number of transistors
1,200 million

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce 6500 and Intel HD Graphics 4000.

PCIe 1.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16

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 NVIDIA GeForce 6500 and Intel HD Graphics 4000 can be seen in this section.

DDR2
Memory type
System Shared
128 MB
Maximum RAM amount
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128 Bit
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
532 MHz
Memory clock speed
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8.512 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
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Shared memory
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Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 6500 and Intel HD Graphics 4000, the size and number of monitors.

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Display Connectors
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Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce 6500 and Intel HD Graphics 4000 is the additional functionality.

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Quick Sync
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce 6500 and Intel HD Graphics 4000. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

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DirectX
11.1 (11_0)
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OpenGL
4.0
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Vulkan
1.1.80
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Shader Model
5.0
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OpenCL
1.2

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce 6500 and Intel HD Graphics 4000 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 NVIDIA GeForce 6500 or Intel HD Graphics 4000 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 6500
Intel HD Graphics 4000
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 6500
Intel HD Graphics 4000
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 6500
Intel HD Graphics 4000
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 6500
Intel HD Graphics 4000
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 6500
Intel HD Graphics 4000
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 NVIDIA GeForce 6500

35.9% faster in synthetic tests

Advantages of Intel HD Graphics 4000

Cheaper ($91 vs $343)

Finer manufacturing process technology (22 nm vs 110 nm)

So, NVIDIA GeForce 6500 or Intel HD Graphics 4000?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce 6500 .

NVIDIA GeForce 6500 versus Intel HD Graphics 4000 performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce 6500
2.5 Out of 2 CpusData Score Intel HD Graphics 4000