HD Graphics P4600 vs GeForce GTX 260 216

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated960
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data1.35
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Generation 7.5 (2013)
GPU code nameGT200Haswell GT2
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date16 September 2008 (16 years ago)1 June 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$299 no data

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 cores216160
Core clock speed576 MHz350 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1200 MHz
Number of transistors1,400 million392 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm22 nm
Power consumption (TDP)182 Watt84 Watt
Texture fill rate41.4724.00
Floating-point processing power0.5365 TFLOPS0.384 TFLOPS
ROPs282
TMUs7220

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount896 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width448 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed999 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth111.9 GB/sno 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model4.05.1
OpenGL3.34.3
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A1.1.80
CUDA1.3-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 September 2008 1 June 2013
Chip lithography 65 nm 22 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 182 Watt 84 Watt

HD Graphics P4600 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 195.5% more advanced lithography process, and 116.7% lower power consumption.

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
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