HD Graphics 500 and GK106 - video card comparison

HD Graphics 500

GK106

Architecture

Gen. 9 Apollo Lake (2016−2017)

Kepler (2012−2018)

GPU code name

Apollo Lake

GK106

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

September 2016

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x1

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Boost clock speed

700 MHz

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Core clock speed

300 MHz

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Floating-point performance

144.0 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

189 million

2,540 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

12

960

Power consumption (TDP)

10 Watt

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Texture fill rate

9.000

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Memory type

DDR3L/LPDDR3/LPDDR4

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Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

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Memory bus width

64/128 Bit

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Memory clock speed

System Shared

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Shared memory

+

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Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

-

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.5 (5.1)

Vulkan

1.1.97

1.2.175

NVENC

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1st Gen

PureVideo HD

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VP5

Quick Sync

+

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