ATI Radeon X600 PRO vs HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1192not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2012)Rage 9 (2003−2006)
GPU code nameIvy Bridge GT1RV380
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 October 2012 (12 years ago)1 September 2004 (20 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 cores6no data
Core clock speed350 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data75 million
Manufacturing process technology22 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data36 Watt
Texture fill rateno data1.600
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data4

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 1.0 x16
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 dataDDR
Maximum RAM amountno data128 MB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data300 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data9.6 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 Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.09.0b
OpenGLno data2.0
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2012 1 September 2004
Chip lithography 22 nm 130 nm

HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge) has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 490.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge) and Radeon X600 PRO. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge) is a notebook card while Radeon X600 PRO is a desktop one.


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