Last Updated on April 19, 2021
The Lenovo M93 uses the Intel HD Graphics 4600, a mobile integrated graphics solution by Intel launched in May 2013. The GPU supports DirectX 11.1, OpenCL 1.2 and OpenGL 4.0. It also features an improved decoder for 4K videos and the fast Quick Sync encoder. The GT2 version integrates 20 Execution Units, 160 shading units, 20 texture mapping units, and 2 ROPs. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 400 MHz, which can be boosted up to 1100 MHz. The HD 4600 not only matches some dedicated GPUs such as the GeForce GT 620M/630M, but also competes with the integrated AMD GPUs like the Radeon HD 8650G.
We’re only going to run a few tests, as it should be obvious that these types of onboard graphics are not going to achieve high frame rates on many of the latest games at ultra graphics settings.
Both the tests below are extremely demanding on a system’s integrated graphics card.
Basemark GPU is a professional evaluation tool to evaluate and compare graphics performance across mobile and desktop platforms. The benchmark was run at 1280×720 full screen.
The Lenovo M93 matches both AWOW machines in this test, although it’s beaten to first place by the Asus laptop.
The next test calculates the average frame-rate within the Valley demo for the Unigine engine. Unigine Valley relies upon an OpenGL 3 core profile context.
$ phoronix-test-suite benchmark unigine-valley
While the frames per second score for all machines are very low (particularly given that only 800×600 resolution is tested), that’s common with most Intel integrated graphics. But there are many games you can play on Intel integrated graphics. We will cover some of our favourites in a later article, and see how they fare on the Lenovo M93.
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / System
Page 2 – Processor
Page 3 – Memory
Page 4 – Graphics
Page 5 – Disk
Complete list of articles in this series:
| Lenovo M93 Ultra Small Desktop PC | |
|---|---|
| Week 6 | Recording video using OBS Studio |
| Week 5 | We put the M93 through some light gaming |
| Week 4 | Multiple operating systems running on the Lenovo M93 |
| Week 3 | Video and audio are tested on the Lenovo machine |
| Week 2 | Benchmarking the Lenovo M93 Ultra Small PC with other low power machines |
| Week 1 | Introduction to the series including wiping Windows and installing Manjaro |
This blog is written on the Lenovo M93 Ultra Small Desktop PC.
| Lenovo M93 | AWOW AK41 | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Tiny Desktop PC | Mini PC |
| Processor | Intel i5-4590T 2.00 GHz (Turbo 3.00 GHz) 4 cores and 4 threads | Intel Celeron J4115 1.80GHz (Turbo 2.5 GHz) 4 cores and 4 threads |
| Chipset | Intel Haswell | Intel Gemini Lake |
| Memory | 16GB DDR3 (1600 MHz) | 8GB DDR4 (2133 MHz) |
| Graphics | Intel HD Graphics 4600 | Intel UHD Graphics 605 |
| Disk | 240GB Crucial SSD | 128GB Foresee NVMe M.2 SSD F900F128GBH |
| AWOW NYI3 | Gigabyte BXBT-1900 | Asus UX305FA | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Mini PC | Mini PC | Laptop |
| Processor | Intel Core i3-5005U 2.00GHz 2 cores 4 threads | Intel Celeron J1900 2.00GHz (Turbo 2.416 GHz) 4 cores 4 threads | Intel Core M-5Y10c 0.8GHz (Turbo 2.00GHz) 2 cores 4 threads |
| Chipset | Intel Broadwell | Intel Atom Z36xxx/Z37xxx | Intel Broadwell-U-OPI |
| Memory | 8GB DDR4 (1600 MHz) | 4GB DDR3 (1600 MHz) | 8GB DDR3 (1866 MHz) |
| Graphics | Intel HD Graphics 5500 | Intel HD 2GB | Intel HD Graphics 5300 |
| Disk | 128GB Kingston NVMe | 250GB Samsung SSD 860 | 128GB SanDisk SSD |