Radeon Instinct MI8 vs HD Graphics 505

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1123not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency10.63no data
ArchitectureGeneration 9.0 (2015−2016)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameApollo Lake GT1.5Fiji
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date1 September 2016 (8 years ago)12 December 2016 (8 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1444096
Core clock speed200 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed650 MHzno data
Number of transistors189 million8,900 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt175 Watt
Texture fill rate11.70256.0
Floating-point processing power0.1872 TFLOPS8.192 TFLOPS
ROPs364
TMUs18256

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceRing BusPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data152 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3L/LPDDR3/LPDDR4HBM
Maximum RAM amount8 GB4 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared4096 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data512.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsPortable Device DependentNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.46.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.02.0
Vulkan1.31.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2016 12 December 2016
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 175 Watt

HD Graphics 505 has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 1650% lower power consumption.

Instinct MI8, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 months.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics 505 and Radeon Instinct MI8. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics 505 is a notebook card while Radeon Instinct MI8 is a workstation one.


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Intel HD Graphics 505
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