
Mobility Radeon HD 4870 and HD Graphics 5500 - video card comparison
Mobility Radeon HD 4870
HD Graphics 5500
Architecture
Terascale 1 (2008−2010)
Gen. 8 Broadwell (2014−2015)
GPU code name
M98-XT
Broadwell GT2
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2009
January 2015
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x1
Boost clock speed
-
950 MHz
Core clock speed
550 MHz
300 MHz
Floating-point performance
880.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
956 million
1,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
24
Power consumption (TDP)
-
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
22.00
22.80
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
888 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
56.83 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
3.3
4.4
Shader Model
4.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.80