HD Graphics 5500 vs ATI Radeon HD 4730

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated976
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data6.90
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Generation 8.0 (2014−2015)
GPU code nameRV770Broadwell GT2
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date8 June 2009 (15 years ago)5 September 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$79 no data

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 cores640192
Core clock speed750 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data850 MHz
Number of transistors956 million1,300 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate24.0020.40
Floating-point processing power0.96 TFLOPS0.3264 TFLOPS
ROPs83
TMUs3224

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16Ring Bus
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed900 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth57.6 GB/sno data
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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 (11_1)
Shader Model4.15.1
OpenGL3.34.4
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 June 2009 5 September 2014
Chip lithography 55 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 15 Watt

HD Graphics 5500 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 292.9% more advanced lithography process, and 633.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4730 and HD Graphics 5500. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 4730 is a desktop card while HD Graphics 5500 is a notebook one.


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