Radeon R5 A220 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 ranking976not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.90no data
ArchitectureGeneration 8.0 (2014−2015)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameBroadwell GT2Caicos
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date5 September 2014 (10 years ago)2014 (10 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 cores192160
Core clock speed300 MHz775 MHz
Boost clock speed850 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,300 million370 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate20.406.200
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 BusPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 SharedDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared1 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1800 MBps
Memory bandwidthno data14.4 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 Dependent1x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.3a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.44.4
OpenCL3.01.2
Vulkan+N/A

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 14 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 35 Watt

HD Graphics 5500 has a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 133.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics 5500 and Radeon R5 A220. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics 5500 is a notebook card while Radeon R5 A220 is a desktop one.


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Intel HD Graphics 5500
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AMD Radeon R5 A220
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