Tom's Hardware Charts Update Mid-May 2014

2014 VGA
AMD Radeon HD 6990 Reference 2x 2GB (HD 6990 2x 2GB GDDR5, 830 MHz)
AMD Radeon HD 6990 Reference 2x 2GB OC-BIOS (HD 6990 2x 2GB GDDR5, 880 MHz)
AMD Radeon HD 6970 Reference 2GB (HD 6970 2GB GDDR5, 800 MHz)
AMD Radeon HD 6950 Reference 2GB (HD 6950 2GB GDDR5, 800 MHz)
AMD Radeon HD 6950 Reference 1GB (HD 6950 1GB GDDR5, 800 MHz)
AMD Radeon HD 6870 Reference 1GB (HD 6870 1GB GDDR5, 900 MHz)
AMD Radeon HD 6850 Reference 1GB (HD 6850 1GB GDDR5, 775 MHz)
AMD Radeon HD 6790 Reference 1GB (HD 6790 1GB GDDR5, 840 MHz)
AMD Radeon HD 6670 Reference 1GB (HD 6670 1GB GDDR5, 800 MHz)
Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan Black 6GB Reference (GTX Titan Black, 6GB GDDR5, 1006 MHz+)
Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB GDDR5 Reference (GTX 660, 2GB GDDR5, 980 Mhz+ (*emul))
Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB GDDR5 Reference (GTX 650 Ti, 2GB GDDR5, 980 Mhz+ )
Nvidia GeForce GTX 640 2GB GDDR5 Reference (GTX 640, 2GB GDDR3, 902 MHz (*emul))
Nvidia GeForce GTX 640 1GB GDDR5 Reference (GTX 640, 1GB GDDR5, 902 MHz (*emul))
Nvidia GeForce GTX 630 2GB GDDR3 384 cores Reference (GTX 630 384 cores, 2GB GDDR3, 902 MHz (*emul))
Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 Ti 1.5GB GDDR5 Reference (GTX 580 Ti, 1.5GB GDDR5, 772 MHz (*emul))
Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 Ti 1.2GB GDDR5 Reference (GTX 570 Ti, 1.2GB GDDR5, 732 MHz (*emul))
Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1GB GDDR5 Reference (GTX 560 Ti, 1GB GDDR5, 823 MHz (*emul))
Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 1GB GDDR5 Reference (GTX 560, 1GB GDDR5, 810 MHz (*emul))
Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB GDDR5 Reference (GTX 550 Ti, 1GB GDDR5, 900 MHz (*emul))

PSU Charts 120V | 230V
Cooler Master V450S
Cooler Master V1200 Platinum
Corsair RM450
Enermax Revolution X't 430
Seasonic S12G 450W
Super Flower SF450P14XE

SSD Charts 2013
Crucial M550 (512 GB, Marvell 88SS9187)
Intel 730 (240gb, SF-2281)
PNY Prevail (240GB, SF-2281)
Silicon Power S70 (240GB, SF-2281)
Takems UTX-PO318 (128 GB, Phison PS3108)
Toshiba HG6 (256 GB, TC358790XBG)
Transcend SSD 340 (256 GB, JMicron 667H)
Transcend SSD 340 (256 GB, JMicron 667H, mSATA)

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9 Comments Comment from the forums

Nathan Willis

Thanks for the hard work :)
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weilin

Can Toms do a comprehensive benchmark for Intel's latest integrated solutions sometime in the future? I'm particularly interested the new HD (HSW based), 4400, 4600, 5000, 5100 (Iris) and 5200 (Iris Pro). They're starting to look more and more viable for light gaming in this day and age.

Also, can their relative performance be added to the "Best Graphics Cards For The Money" hierarchy chart? I'm curious as to how well they stack up today.
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dstarr3

Can Toms do a comprehensive benchmark for Intel's latest integrated solutions sometime in the future? I'm particularly interested the new HD (HSW based), 4400, 4600, 5000, 5100 (Iris) and 5200 (Iris Pro). They're starting to look more and more viable for light gaming in this day and age.

Also, can their relative performance be added to the "Best Graphics Cards For The Money" hierarchy chart? I'm curious as to how well they stack up today.

I'd also like this, too, really. Integrated graphics are becoming more and more relevant these days. Especially considering the new consoles are powered by an APU.

I suppose there is difficulty in that performance is greatly affected by memory bandwidth, but there must be some way to come up with a generally useful metric for integrated graphics to be weighed against graphics cards. Maybe sticking with 8GB of 1600mHz RAM in dual channel, as I imagine that's what most people that bought/built computers recently would have.
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AnEwG

Short answer: They don't do all that well in gaming even against APUs, except for the 5000 series and above maybe.
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JD88

I play games on the Haswell HD graphics that my c720 Chromebook has. It runs League of Legends, Torchlight, Starcraft 2, most of Valve's source games, and many others at medium settings. Pretty champ for a $200 notebook and a Celeron chip. Those with HD 5000 graphics are even better and the Iris Pro is just a little bit under a GT 650M, which runs a lot of modern games perfectly on my Lenovo Y400.
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Dylan Richards

Can Toms do a comprehensive benchmark for Intel's latest integrated solutions sometime in the future? I'm particularly interested the new HD (HSW based), 4400, 4600, 5000, 5100 (Iris) and 5200 (Iris Pro). They're starting to look more and more viable for light gaming in this day and age.

Also, can their relative performance be added to the "Best Graphics Cards For The Money" hierarchy chart? I'm curious as to how well they stack up today.
Short answer: They don't do all that well in gaming even against APUs, except for the 5000 series and above maybe.

I'll use the best IGPU as of May 2014, as a reference point:

AMD R7 7850K = 100%
Intel Iris Pro 5200 (desktop/laptop) = 80%
AMD Radeon HD 7660G = 60%
AMD Radeon HD 7660D = 58%
Intel Iris 5100 = 53%
Intel HD 4600 (desktop) = 47%
Intel HD 4600 (laptop) = 45%
Intel HD 5000 = 43%
Intel HD 4400 (desktop) = 33%
Intel HD 4400 (laptop) = 32%
Intel HD 4000 (desktop) = 31%
Intel HD 4000 (laptop) = 29%
Intel HD 4200 = 28%
Intel HD 3000 (desktop) = 18%
Intel HD 2500 = 17%
Intel HD (Haswell, desktop) = 16%
Intel HD 3000 (laptop) = 16%
Intel HD (Ivy Bridge, desktop) = 15%
Intel HD 2000 = 15%
Intel HD (Haswell, laptop) = 14%
Intel HD (Sandy Bridge, desktop) = 14%
Intel HD (Ivy Bridge, laptop) = 13%
Intel HD (Sandy Bridge, laptop) = 12%
Intel HD (Bay Trail) = 10%
Intel HD (Westmere, desktop) = 8%
Intel HD (Westmere, laptop) = 5%

The HD 5000 would perform better if it wasn't an ULV-processor-only IGPU.
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weilin

Thanks! out of curiousity, where's the source for this data?

Wei
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Dylan Richards

13324282 said:
Thanks! out of curiousity, where's the source for this data?

Wei

A combination of PassMark, Futuremark, Notebookcheck and my own research.

I also forgot to mention the R7 7850K is capable of running Battlefield 4 @ 720p, 35 fps, and Minecraft on its highest settings (including render distance) at 40 fps, just as an idea of how the other solutions compare. Naturally, Intel IGPU performance will differ depending on the processor used and also on the power tier due to different frequencies of the IGPU, but the Iris Pro 5200 is offered at identical frequencies in both desktop and laptop processors.
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Menigmand

How come there are no benchmarks of the Maxwell 860m? Is it because laptops make it impossible to do a proper test bench for comparable results?
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