Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics
The Intel Graphics Media Accelerator HD Graphics, Intel HD Graphics, or GMA HD (or GMA5700MHD) is an onboard / shared memory graphics card for laptops that is bundled in the package of the new Arrandale dual core CPUs (upcoming in Q1 2010). Depending on the CPU model, the GMA HD is clocked between 166 and 500 MHz (with Turbo Boost max. 500-766 MHz). Compared, the the CPU die, the GPU and memory controller are produced in 45nm and not 32nm.
Compared to the current GMA 4500MHD graphics adapter, the Graphics Media Accelerator HD got two more shaders leading in 12 execution units (or unified shader cores). The identically called Intel HD Graphics in entry level Sandy Bridge processors is the successor of this graphics card and offers an improved architecture and therefore faster speeds.
The performance of the new Graphics Media Accelerator HD graphics card is noticable better than the old GMA 4500MHD (due to the increased number of shaders and in some cases also clock rate). In some games, the GMA HD is even as fast as a GeForce 9400M / ION chipset. On average it should be as fast as the HD 3200 / 4200 by ATI and therefore allow the user to play older and less demanding games in low settings. The driver support is still not as good as for Nvidia and AMD graphics cards. Furthermore, Low Voltage and Ultra Low Voltage Core CPUs contain lower clocked GMA HD graphics and are therefore slower.
Furthermore, the OpenGL performance is still not very good. E.g. the old Doom 3 and Quake 4 games wont run fluently.
Similar to the 4500MHD, the GMA HD also offers hardware accelerated HD video functions in the chip. The DXVA Checker lists support for MPEG2 (VLD, IDCT, MoComp, A, C), H264 (VLD, MoComp, IDCT), WMV9 (MoComp, IDCT), and VC1 (MoComp, IDCT) in 72x480, 1280x720 and 1920x1080. A Toshiba Tecra A11 laptop with Core i5-430M CPU decoded Big Buck Bunny (1080p, H.264) using the Windows Media Player using the graphics card with only 0-1% CPU load. When using the VLC which did not support using the graphic card, the CPU load was significantly higher with 8-17% in our tests. The same was noticed with WMV videos (The Magic of Flight 1080p 3-5% versus 7-12%) and VC-1 videos (Elephant's Dream 1080p 5-8% versus 8-15%).
The Turbo Boost function of the new Arrandale CPUs also allows the automatic overclocking of the GPU core. The graphics card is only overclocked if the CPU is not fully loaded and the TDP is not fully used.
- High End: Core i5 520M, 540M, i7 620M: 500-766 MHz
- Low End: Core i3 330M, 350M: 500-677 MHz
- Low Voltage: Core i7 620LM, 640LM: 266-566 MHz
- Ultra Low Voltage: Core i5-520UM, i5-620UM, 640UM: 166-500 MHz
It is questionable if the Turbo is really often used in current games, as most games also use a lot of CPU time. Therefore, the UM and LM versions of the GMA HD should be a lot slower because of the slow base speed of 166 / 266 MHz.
Codename | GMA HD |
Architecture | Gen. 5 Arrandale |
Pipelines | 12 - unified |
Core Speed | 500 MHz |
Shared Memory | yes |
API | DirectX 10, Shader 4.0 |
Power Consumption | 35 Watt |
technology | 45 nm |
Date of Announcement | 10.01.2010 |
Benchmarks
min: 119 avg: 267.6 median: 297.5 (0%) max: 394 Points
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3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX +3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX
min: 90 avg: 202.7 median: 225 (0%) max: 299 Points
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3DMark 2001SE - 3DMark 2001 - Standard
min: 4735 avg: 8113 median: 8301.5 (9%) max: 10934 Points
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3DMark 03 - 3DMark 03 - Standard
min: 2681 avg: 3981 median: 3988 (2%) max: 5007 Points
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3DMark 05 - 3DMark 05 - Standard
min: 1093 avg: 2790 median: 2748 (3%) max: 3429 Points
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3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Score Unknown Settings +min: 1076 avg: 1436 median: 1389 (2%) max: 2013 points
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3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 +min: 994 avg: 1476 median: 1420 (2%) max: 1968 Points
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3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x800 +min: 1120 avg: 1461 median: 1402.5 (2%) max: 1919 Points
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3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x768 +min: 1122 avg: 1610 median: 1680.5 (2%) max: 2119 Points
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3DMark 06 - Standard 1152x864 +1599 Points (2%)
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Windows 7 Experience Index - Win7 Gaming graphics
min: 3.2 avg: 4.9 median: 5.1 (65%) max: 5.3 Points
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Windows 7 Experience Index - Win7 Graphics
min: 2.4 avg: 4.1 median: 4 (51%) max: 4.8 Points
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Cinebench R10 Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit) +Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit)
min: 62 avg: 1720 median: 1790 (1%) max: 3036 points
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Cinebench R11.5 Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit +Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL 64 Bit
min: 0.68 avg: 1.2 median: 1.2 (0%) max: 1.86 fps
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Game Benchmarks
The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
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28.3 [X] Lenovo B560 (59-057197)Intel Pentium P6100 2GHz
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47 [X] Acer Aspire Aspire 5745PG-5464G32Mnks GMA HDIntel Core i5-460M 2.5GHz
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13.2 [X] Lenovo B560 (59-057197)Intel Pentium P6100 2GHz
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16 [X] Acer Aspire Aspire 5745PG-5464G32Mnks GMA HDIntel Core i5-460M 2.5GHz
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18.1 [X] Schenker MB6Intel Core i3-330M 2.1GHz
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19.3 [X] Schenker MB6Intel Core i5-430M 2.3GHz
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20.6 [X] Schenker MB6Intel Core i5-540M 2.5GHz
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21.7 [X] Schenker MB6Intel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
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21.8 [X] Schenker MB6Intel Core i7-620M 2.7GHz
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9.8 [X] Schenker MB6Intel Core i3-330M 2.1GHz
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11.7 [X] Schenker MB6Intel Core i5-540M 2.5GHz
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11.9 [X] Schenker MB6Intel Core i5-520M 2.4GHz
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12.1 [X] Schenker MB6Intel Core i7-620M 2.7GHz
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12.2 [X] Schenker MB6Intel Core i5-430M 2.3GHz
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