HD Graphics 4600 [in 8 benchmarks]
HD Graphics 4600
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- Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
- Core clock speed 200
- Max video memory System Shared
- Memory type System Shared
- Memory clock speed System Shared
- Maximum resolution
Summary
Intel started HD Graphics 4600 sales 1 June 2013. This is a Gen. 7.5 Haswell architecture notebook card based on 22 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 45 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at
1.81%
of a leader’s which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
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General info
Some basic facts about HD Graphics 4600: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 824 | |
| Place by popularity | 53 | |
| Value for money | 0.07 | |
| Architecture | Gen. 7.5 Haswell (2012−2013) | |
| GPU code name | Haswell GT2 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 1 June 2013 (10 years old) | |
| Current price | $464 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Value for money
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Technical specs
HD Graphics 4600’s specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of HD Graphics 4600’s performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 20 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 200 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1350 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 392 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 22 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 45 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 27.00 | of 969.9 (h200 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 50 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
Information on HD Graphics 4600’s compatibility with other computer components.
Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it’s notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on HD Graphics 4600: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | System Shared | |
| Maximum RAM amount | System Shared | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 64/128 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | System Shared | of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Shared memory | + |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on HD Graphics 4600.
As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
Technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by HD Graphics 4600. You’ll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| Quick Sync | + |
API support
APIs supported by HD Graphics 4600, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1. 2 |
|
| Vulkan | 1.1.80 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of HD Graphics 4600. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
HD Graphics 4600
1.81
Passmark
This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
HD Graphics 4600
710
3DMark Vantage Performance
3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280×1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.
Benchmark coverage: 16%
HD Graphics 4600
5203
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280×720 resolution, are relatively taxing.
Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.
Benchmark coverage: 16%
HD Graphics 4600
911
3DMark Fire Strike Score
Benchmark coverage: 13%
HD Graphics 4600
593
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280×720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.
Benchmark coverage: 13%
HD Graphics 4600
5613
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature seemingly made of lava.
Using 1920×1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.
Benchmark coverage: 13%
HD Graphics 4600
636
3DMark Ice Storm GPU
Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280×720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.
Benchmark coverage: 8%
HD Graphics 4600
42243
Unigine Heaven 3.0
This is an old DirectX 11 benchmark using Unigine, a 3D game engine by eponymous Russian company. It displays a fantasy medieval town sprawling over several flying islands. Version 3.0 was released in 2012, and in 2013 it was superseded by Heaven 4.
0, which introduced several slight improvements, including a newer version of Unigine.
Benchmark coverage: 4%
HD Graphics 4600
14
Gaming performance
Let’s see how good HD Graphics 4600 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Average FPS across all PC games
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:
| 900p | 14 | |
| Full HD | 11 |
Performance in popular games
Relative perfomance
Overall HD Graphics 4600 performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.
Intel HD Graphics 615
101.
66
Intel HD Graphics 610
100
AMD Radeon HD 6620G + HD 7670M Dual Graphics
100
Intel HD Graphics 4600
100
AMD Radeon HD 8730M
98.9
AMD Radeon HD 8650M
97.79
AMD Radeon R6 (Kaveri)
97.24
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8.7%
Core i5
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7.8%
Core i5
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6.8%
Core i5
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Core i7
4790
3.8%
Core i5
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3.6%
Core i3
4000M
3.6%
Core i5
4210M
3.3%
Core i7
4770
2.9%
Core i5
4440
2.
7%
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Overview of Intel HD graphics 4600
We are talking about the built-in integrated graphics in Haswell processors.
The performance of the intel HD Graphics 4600 can be compared to graphics cards like the nVIDIA GeForce GT 630M. However, integrated Intel graphics can play up to 16 operations, which is ahead of GeForce.
Characteristics and comparison with Geforce GT 630
If we make peak performance calculations for comparison between HD 4600 and GeForce, we can see the following picture:
| HD 4600 | 400 GFLOPs |
| GeForce GT 630 | 311 GFLOPS |
However, when texturing, the picture becomes different and GeForce takes the lead due to the presence of 16 TMUs. Comparison in fill rate looks like this:
| HD 4600 | 5 Mtex/s |
| GeForce GT 630 | 13 Mtex/s |
And in rasterization speed:
| HD 4600 | 2.5 Mpx/s |
| GeForce GT 630 | 3. 2 Mpx/s |
Based on this, we can conclude that GeForce is still a serious contender for Intel. The HD 4600 uses twenty execution units, which in turn improves performance by 20% when compared to the HD 4000. The standard graphics clock speed of the HD 4600 is 400 MHz. However, it is worth considering the Turbo Boost support by the core, therefore, depending on the task, it can take overclocking up to 1350 MHz. The main characteristics of the Intel HD 4600 look like this:
| Manufacturer: | Intel |
| Series: | HD Graphics 4600 |
| Code: | Haswell |
| Threads: | 20 — unified |
| Clock frequency: | 400 — 1350* MHz |
| Shader frequency: | 400 — 1350* MHz |
| Total memory: | yes |
| DirectX: | DirectX 11.1, Shader 5. 0 |
| Technology: | 22 nm |
| Optional: | QuickSync |
| Release date: | 04/01/2013 |
In addition, this chip has an advanced video decoder in 4K format, as well as support for Shader 5.0 and Open CL 1.2 Open GL 4.0.
Intel HD 4600 in games
Based on the above, let’s try to understand what games will run on this chip. At its core, the Intel HD 4600 is not a new invention, but a gradually evolving system that was created in early 2010. At the moment, the chip has turned from a weak budget option into a worthy competition with inexpensive video cards that have native memory. If earlier it was available for browsing the Internet and watching videos, at the moment it has become possible to play some certain games. In theory, Intel HD graphics 4600 can handle the most modern games, due to DirectX 11.1 support, but being just an integrated graphics card, it can not handle everything.
Below are several variants of games with the results of multiple tests. For a much brighter comparison, Intel HD graphics 4400 was also tested.
Aliens vs. Predator
Enhanced:
4400 — 10.2 fps
4600 — 13.6
Not an option.
At resolution — 800×480:
4400 — 69.3
4600 — 103.4
Quite playable.
Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY Edition
Enhanced quality:
4400 — 26.6
4600 — 41.2
In principle, it is possible, but the game will obviously lag.
At 800×480 resolution:
4400 — 105.2
4600 — 196.3
The game will go very well.
Crysis: Warhead x64
Enhanced:
4400 — 9.8
4600 — 14.6
Totally unacceptable.
With 720×480 extension settings:
4400 — 106.0
4600 — 156.8
You can play safely and comfortably.
F1 2010
Enhanced:
4400 — 12.5
4600 — 15.
1
Absolutely unplayable.
At 720×480 resolution settings:
4400 — 33.9
4600 — 50.9
Possible lag in the game.
Far Cry 2
Enhanced quality:
4400 — 17.1
4600 — 27.2
In principle, you can play.
With a resolution of 800×480:
4400 — 42.6
4600 — 89.8
You can play safely and comfortably.
Metro 2033
Improved quality:
4400 — 6.5
4600 — 9.8
With all the desire to relax and delve into the game, it will not be possible.
At low settings, namely resolution no more than 1024×768:
4400 — 24.4
4600 — 46.5
You can try, but lags are quite likely.
No video plugs needed
According to the results of tests and research, we can safely say that the new graphics chip has made a huge leap forward compared to the previous generation HD 4000 core. The average percentage of separation in all tests was almost 40 percent.
Successfully competing with budget discrete graphics cards such as the GeForce GT 630, the new Intel integrated graphics eliminate the useless purchase of such graphics cards, because their performance is approximately equal. In addition, this graphics can easily compete with the newest cheap video cards. With incomparably high energy costs, their performance will vary within the same limits, if not lower. Another important detail is the fact that the use of this graphics is possible both in the Core i7 4770K and in the more affordable Core i5.
HD Graphics 4600 [in 8 benchmarks]
HD Graphics 4600
- PCIe 1.0 x16 interface
- Core frequency 200
- Video memory size System Shared
- Memory type System Shared
- System Shared Memory Frequency
- Maximum resolution
Description
Intel started HD Graphics 4600 sales 1 June 2013. This is Gen. 7.5 Haswell and 22 nm manufacturing process, primarily designed for office use.
In terms of compatibility, this is a PCIe 1.0 x16 card. Power consumption — 45 W.
It provides poor performance in tests and games at the level of
1.81%
from the leader, which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
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General Information
Information about the type (desktop or laptop) and architecture of the HD Graphics 4600, as well as when sales started and cost at that time.
| Performance ranking | 824 | |
| Popularity ranking | 53 | |
| Value for money | 0.07 | |
| Architecture | Gen. 7.5 Haswell (2012-2013) | |
| GPU | Haswell GT2 | |
| Type | Notebook | |
| Release date | June 1, 2013 (10 years ago) | |
| Price now | 464$ | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Value for money
Performance to price ratio.
The higher the better.
Features
HD Graphics 4600’s general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. They indirectly speak about HD Graphics 4600’s performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Number of stream processors | 20 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| 200MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) | |
| Boost clock | 1350 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 392M | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)) |
| Process | 22nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| TDP | 45W | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texturing speed | 27. 00 9001 5
| out of 969.9 (h200 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Float performance | 50 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Compatibility and dimensions
Information on HD Graphics 4600 compatibility with other computer components. Useful for example when choosing the configuration of a future computer or to upgrade an existing one. For laptop video cards, this is the estimated size of the laptop, the bus and the connection connector, if the video card is connected through the connector, and not soldered on the motherboard.
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
RAM
Parameters of the memory installed on HD Graphics 4600 — type, size, bus, frequency and bandwidth. For video cards built into the processor that do not have their own memory, a shared part of the RAM is used.
| Memory type | System memory used | |
| Maximum memory | System memory used | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 64/128 bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory frequency | System used | of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Shared memory | + |
Video outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on HD Graphics 4600.
As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for laptop ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model. No outputs 0002
Technology solutions and APIs supported by HD Graphics 4600 are listed here. You will need this information if your graphics card is required to support specific technologies.
| Quick Sync | + |
API support
APIs supported by HD Graphics 4600, including their versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | |
| Shader Model | ||
| OpenGL | 4.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.1.80 |
These are the results of HD Graphics 4600 rendering performance tests in non-gaming benchmarks.
The overall score is set from 0 to 100, where 100 corresponds to the fastest video card at the moment.
Overall benchmark performance
This is our overall performance rating. We regularly improve our algorithms, but if you find any inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in the comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
HD Graphics 4600
1.81
Passmark
This is a very common benchmark included in the Passmark PerformanceTest package. He gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation by running four separate tests for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the latter is done in 4K resolution if possible), and a few more tests using DirectCompute.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
HD Graphics 4600
710
3DMark Vantage Performance
3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark. It loads the graphics card with two scenes, one of which shows a girl running away from some kind of military base located in a sea cave, and the other of a space fleet attacking defenseless planet.
Support for 3DMark Vantage was discontinued in April 2017 and it is now recommended to use the Time Spy benchmark instead.
Benchmark coverage: 16%
HD Graphics 4600
5203
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
3DMark 11 is Futuremark’s legacy DirectX 11 benchmark. He used four tests based on two scenes: one is several submarines exploring a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All tests make extensive use of volumetric lighting and tessellation and, despite being run at 1280×720, are relatively heavy. Support for 3DMark 11 ended in January 2020 and is now being replaced by Time Spy.
Benchmark coverage: 16%
HD Graphics 4600
911
3DMark Fire Strike Score
Benchmark coverage: 13%
HD Graphics 4600
593
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
Cloud Gate is a legacy DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark used to test home PCs and low-end laptops.
It displays several scenes of some strange teleportation device launching spaceships into the unknown at a fixed resolution of 1280×720. As with the Ice Storm benchmark, it was deprecated in January 2020 and 3DMark Night Raid is now recommended instead.
Benchmark coverage: 13%
HD Graphics 4600
5613
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests showing a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature that appears to be made of lava. Using a resolution of 1920×1080, Fire Strike demonstrates fairly realistic graphics and is quite demanding on hardware.
Benchmark coverage: 13%
HD Graphics 4600
636
3DMark Ice Storm GPU
Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of the 3DMark package. Ice Storm has been used to measure the performance of entry-level laptops and Windows-based tablets.
It uses DirectX 11 feature level 9 to render a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet at 1280×720 resolution. Support for Ice Storm ended in January 2020, now the developers recommend using Night Raid instead.
Benchmark coverage: 8%
HD Graphics 4600
42243
Unigine Heaven 3.0
This is an old DirectX 11 based benchmark using the Unigine 3D game engine from the Russian company of the same name. It depicts a medieval fantasy city spread over several floating islands. Version 3.0 was released in 2012 and was replaced by Heaven 4.0 in 2013, which introduced several minor improvements, including a newer version of the Unigine engine.
Benchmark coverage: 4%
HD Graphics 4600
14
HD Graphics 4600 in games
FPS in popular games on HD Graphics 4600, as well as compliance with system requirements. Remember that the official requirements of the developers do not always match the data of real tests.
Average FPS
Here are the average fps for a large selection of popular games at various resolutions: 9
| 900p | 14 | |
| Full HD 0015 |
Popular games
Relative performance
Overall HD Graphics 4600 performance compared to its closest competitors in notebook graphics cards.
Intel HD Graphics 615
101.66
Intel HD Graphics 610
100
AMD Radeon HD 6620G + HD 7670M Dual Graphics
100
Intel HD Graphics 4600
100
AMD Radeon HD 8730M
98.9
AMD Radeon HD 8650M
97.79
AMD Radeon R6 (Kaveri)
97.24
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