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i5-4460 vs. i5-4250u

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The i5-4460 has 4 threads at up to 3.4GHz. It has HD 4600 graphics (4 rops, 8 tmus, 160 shaders) at up to 1.1GHz. It has a thermal limit of 84 watts.

The i5-4250u has 4 threads at up to 2.6GHz. It has HD 5000 graphics (8 rops, 16 TMUs, 320 shaders) at up to 1 GHz. It has a thermal limit of 15 watts, which hopefully won't impact performance.

My question is, which is better for gaming at 1600x900 resolution? I can't find the proper benchmarks.
 

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where do you get that shader count from? everywhere i look says INTEL HD 5000 has 40 execution units? are you mistaking AMD HD card specs cause of the naming?
 
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The i5-4460 has 4 threads at up to 3.4GHz. It has HD 4600 graphics (4 rops, 8 tmus, 160 shaders) at up to 1.1GHz. It has a thermal limit of 84 watts.

The i5-4250u has 4 threads at up to 2.6GHz. It has HD 5000 graphics (8 rops, 16 TMUs, 320 shaders) at up to 1 GHz. It has a thermal limit of 15 watts, which hopefully won't impact performance.

My question is, which is better for gaming at 1600x900 resolution? I can't find the proper benchmarks.
Are you using the integrated GPU (The HD chip) for said gaming?

Edit: Disregard what I said, according to notebook check the 4600 (I was looking at 4400) is a higher GPU in performance than the 5000.
 
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where do you get that shader count from? everywhere i look says INTEL HD 5000 has 40 execution units? are you mistaking AMD HD card specs cause of the naming?
These 40 shaders can do 8 each one. I think I read this at Anandtech.
 
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Edit: Disregard what I said, according to notebook check the 4600 (I was looking at 4400) is a higher GPU in performance than the 5000.
Notebook check is an unreliable source of information. In one of their tests, a HD 4000 beats a HD 4400.
 
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Notebook check is an unreliable source of information. In one of their tests, a HD 4000 beats a HD 4400.
Well they look at it and test for a variety of things but I went out looking for some other benchmarks in games and here is one but it skips the 5000 chip.

Part of the reason I think the 4600 is supposed to be better is because of the very high core clocks with the one on the 4250u is on a low chip that allows from 200mhz to 1000 MHz depending on temps which is lower than the 4600 at +1300mhz. Even with the reduced shaders the core clocks are really significantly different chip to chip and the heat/power restraints hold back the 4250u chip.

According to Passmark the HD 4600 is above the HD 5000
 
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No offense but unless someone is in the know about these chips or has a better source of info than Notebookcheck, I'm going with my gut feeling. Notebookcheck has lied to me before about a tablet and my numbers didn't match up with theirs and it was much slower than notebookcheck's results. I ended up taking the tablet back. The Exynos beating a Core i is rather inaccurate.

I'm not flaming you, I'm just venting at Notebookcheck.
 
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No offense but unless someone is in the know about these chips or has a better source of info than Notebookcheck, I'm going with my gut feeling. Notebookcheck has lied to me before about a tablet and my numbers didn't match up with theirs and it was much slower than notebookcheck's results. I ended up taking the tablet back. The Exynos beating a Core i is rather inaccurate.

I'm not flaming you, I'm just venting at Notebookcheck.
According to Passmark the HD 4600 is above the HD 5000
I do not consider passmark to be the best benchmark ever, but it is good for comparing same brand cards or CPU's and that lists the 4600 as the higher of the 2.
 
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I might be ready to agree with you. Futuremark forums had an interesting discussion about the TDP limiting the 15w chip.
 
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I found the information I needed in the 3DMark benchmark listings, to say the 15w 4250u is indeed a waste.
 

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You were comparing a 4460 (Skt 1150) to a 4250u (BGA 1168). Thats comparing apples to oranges. A desktop Haswell to a Netbook part-

That netbook parts focus is battery endurance and light work.
 
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You were comparing a 4460 (Skt 1150) to a 4250u (BGA 1168). Thats comparing apples to oranges. A desktop Haswell to a Netbook part-

That netbook parts focus is battery endurance and light work.

Okay. But for about the same price, I can get a small Dell box with an i5-4460, or an Intel NUC which is a bit smaller with an i5-4250u. Which is why I asked.
 

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Well gaming/graphics that Dell has expansionability. So you could put a better sff gc in it.
 
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One is a 4 core 84W desktop chip and the other one is a 2 core 15W ULV notebook chip. The desktop one will be better always
 

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Kind of late to the party here, he already is dissatisfied with his purchase of the NUC
 
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