ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 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 efficiency6.97no data
ArchitectureGeneration 8.0 (2014−2015)Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code nameBroadwell GT2M7
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date5 September 2014 (10 years ago)1 December 2001 (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 cores1922
Core clock speed300 MHz280 MHz
Boost clock speed850 MHz280 MHz
Number of transistors1,300 million60 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt27 Watt
Texture fill rate20.400.56
Floating-point processing power0.3264 TFLOPSno data
ROPs31
TMUs242

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 BusAGP 4x
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
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared32 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared200 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data3.2 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)7.0
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.41.3
OpenCL3.0N/A
Vulkan+N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 September 2014 1 December 2001
Chip lithography 14 nm 150 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 27 Watt

HD Graphics 5500 has an age advantage of 12 years, a 971.4% more advanced lithography process, and 80% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics 5500 and Mobility Radeon 7500. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics 5500 is a desktop card while Mobility Radeon 7500 is a notebook one.


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Intel HD Graphics 5500
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