HD Graphics 500: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

HD Graphics 500 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.77% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

Intel started HD Graphics 500 sales 1 September 2015. This is a Generation 9.0 architecture notebook card based on 14 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via Ring Bus interface. Power consumption is at 10 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about HD Graphics 500: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking1152
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency8.80of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureGeneration 9.0 (2015−2016)
GPU code nameApollo Lake GT1
Market segmentLaptop
Release date1 September 2015 (9 years ago)

Detailed specifications

HD Graphics 500's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of HD Graphics 500's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores96of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed200 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed650 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors189 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology14 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)10 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate7.800of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power0.1248 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs2of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs12of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of HD Graphics 500 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfaceRing Bus

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on HD Graphics 500: 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 typeDDR3L/LPDDR3/LPDDR4
Maximum RAM amount8 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus widthSystem Sharedof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speedSystem Sharedof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Shared memory+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on HD Graphics 500. 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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by HD Graphics 500. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync+

API compatibility

APIs supported by HD Graphics 500, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.4
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL3.0
Vulkan1.3

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of HD Graphics 500. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark 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 500 0.77

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of 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.

HD Graphics 500 298

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 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

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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 made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

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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 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

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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 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good HD Graphics 500 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:

Full HD10
1440p1

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 3−4

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 5−6
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3−4
Cyberpunk 2077 3−4
Far Cry New Dawn 1−2
Hitman 3 5−6
Horizon Zero Dawn 12−14
Red Dead Redemption 2 0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 6−7
Watch Dogs: Legion 30−35

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 5−6
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3−4
Cyberpunk 2077 3−4
Far Cry New Dawn 1−2
Hitman 3 5−6
Horizon Zero Dawn 12−14
Red Dead Redemption 2 0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 6−7
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 10−11
Watch Dogs: Legion 30−35

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 5−6
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3−4
Cyberpunk 2077 3−4
Hitman 3 5−6
Horizon Zero Dawn 12−14
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 6−7
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 10−11
Watch Dogs: Legion 30−35

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 0−1

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 0−1
Far Cry New Dawn 1−2

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 0−1
Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
Far Cry 5 1−2
Hitman 3 7−8
Horizon Zero Dawn 4−5
Watch Dogs: Legion 2−3

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 3−4

4K
High Preset

Far Cry New Dawn 0−1

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 1−2
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 0−1
Far Cry 5 0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 2−3

Closest competitors

HD Graphics 500's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.


Similar GPUs

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Recommended processors

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Community ratings

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