Radeon R6 Graphics 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 popularity100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.90no data
ArchitectureGeneration 8.0 (2014−2015)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameBroadwell GT2Spectre Lite
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date5 September 2014 (10 years ago)17 September 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 cores192384
Core clock speed300 MHz533 MHz
Boost clock speed850 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistors1,300 million2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate20.4014.40
Floating-point processing power0.3264 TFLOPS0.4608 TFLOPS
ROPs38
TMUs2424

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 BusIGP
Widthno dataIGP

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 SharedSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory bus widthSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory clock speedSystem SharedSystem Shared
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)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.0
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL3.02.0
Vulkan+1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm

HD Graphics 5500 has a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics 5500 and Radeon R6 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics 5500 is a notebook card while Radeon R6 Graphics is a desktop one.


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