HD Graphics 2500 and HD Graphics 500 - video card comparison
HD Graphics 2500
HD Graphics 500
Architecture
Gen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2011−2012)
Gen. 9 Apollo Lake (2016−2017)
GPU code name
Ivy Bridge GT1
Apollo Lake
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
April 2012
September 2016
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x1
Boost clock speed
1150 MHz
700 MHz
Core clock speed
650 MHz
300 MHz
Floating-point performance
13.8 gflops
144.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
22 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
392 million
189 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
6
12
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
10 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.900
9.000
Memory type
System Shared
DDR3L/LPDDR3/LPDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
8 GB
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
System Shared
Shared memory
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+
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.0
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.80
1.1.97
Quick Sync
-
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