GeForce4 Go 4200 vs HD Graphics 5500

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking974not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency7.02no data
ArchitectureGeneration 8.0 (2014−2015)Kelvin (2001−2003)
GPU code nameBroadwell GT2NV28 A1
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date5 September 2014 (10 years ago)14 November 2002 (22 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 cores192no data
Core clock speed300 MHz200 MHz
Boost clock speed850 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,300 million36 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data
Texture fill rate20.401.600
Floating-point processing power0.3264 TFLOPSno data
ROPs34
TMUs248

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 BusAGP 8x

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 typeSystem SharedDDR
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared64 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared200 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data3.2 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

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

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)8.1
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.41.3
OpenCL3.0N/A
Vulkan+N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 September 2014 14 November 2002
Chip lithography 14 nm 150 nm

HD Graphics 5500 has an age advantage of 11 years, and a 971.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics 5500 and GeForce4 Go 4200. We've got no test results to judge.


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