UHD Graphics 16EU vs HD Graphics 5500

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking972not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.97no data
ArchitectureGeneration 8.0 (2014−2015)Generation 12.1 (2020−2021)
GPU code nameBroadwell GT2Rocket Lake GT1
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date5 September 2014 (10 years ago)2021 (3 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 cores192128
Core clock speed300 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed850 MHz900 MHz
Number of transistors1,300 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm+++
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate20.407.200
Floating-point processing power0.3264 TFLOPS0.2304 TFLOPS
ROPs38
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 BusRing Bus
WidthIGPIGP

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 DependentMotherboard Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.6
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan+1.3

Pros & cons summary


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