GeForce 7900 GTX and HD Graphics 5500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 7900 GTX vs HD Graphics 5500
GeForce 7900 GTX
399
HD Graphics 5500
598
GeForce 7900 GTX
HD Graphics 5500
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Gen. 8 Broadwell (2014−2015)
GPU code name
G71
Broadwell GT2
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
March 2006
January 2015
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x1
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
Boost clock speed
-
950 MHz
Core clock speed
650 MHz
300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
278 million
1,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
24
Power consumption (TDP)
84 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
15.60
22.80
Memory type
GDDR3
-
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
N/A
2.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.4
Shader Model
3.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.80