ATI Mobility FireGL V5250 vs HD Graphics 5500

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking970not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.99no data
ArchitectureGeneration 8.0 (2014−2015)no data
GPU code nameBroadwell GT2M56GL
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date5 September 2014 (10 years ago)1 January 2007 (17 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 cores19217
Core clock speed300 MHz5 MHz
Boost clock speed850 MHz400 MHz
Number of transistors1,300 million157 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data
Texture fill rate20.405.400
Floating-point processing power0.3264 TFLOPSno data
ROPs312
TMUs2412

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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfaceRing BusPCIe 1.0 x16
WidthIGPno data

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/DDR2/GDDR3/GDDR4
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared256 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared330 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data11.2 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

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model5.13.0
OpenGL4.42.0
OpenCL3.0N/A
Vulkan+N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 September 2014 1 January 2007
Chip lithography 14 nm 90 nm

HD Graphics 5500 has an age advantage of 7 years, and a 542.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics 5500 and Mobility FireGL V5250. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics 5500 is a desktop card while Mobility FireGL V5250 is a mobile workstation one.


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