HD Graphics P5700 vs Radeon HD 6550M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1015not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.64no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Generation 8.0 (2014−2015)
GPU code nameLexingtonBroadwell GT2
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date26 November 2010 (14 years ago)5 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 cores400192
Core clock speed600 MHz700 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1000 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 million1,300 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)26 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate12.0024.00
Floating-point processing power0.48 TFLOPS0.384 TFLOPS
ROPs83
TMUs2024

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 sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceMXM-IIIGP
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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed900 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/sno data
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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.4
OpenCL1.22.0
VulkanN/A1.1.80

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 November 2010 5 September 2014
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 26 Watt 15 Watt

HD Graphics P5700 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 73.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6550M and HD Graphics P5700. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6550M is a notebook card while HD Graphics P5700 is a desktop one.


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