Radeon R7 (Kaveri) and HD Graphics 500 - video card comparison
Radeon R7 (Kaveri)
HD Graphics 500
Architecture
GCN 1.1 (2014)
Gen. 9 Apollo Lake (2016−2017)
GPU code name
Kaveri
Apollo Lake
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
June 2014
September 2016
Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x1
Boost clock speed
686 MHz
700 MHz
Core clock speed
553 MHz
300 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
144.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2410 Million
189 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
12
Power consumption (TDP)
-
10 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
9.000
Memory type
-
DDR3L/LPDDR3/LPDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
-
8 GB
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
System Shared
Shared memory
+
+
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
DirectX
12 (FL 12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenCL
-
2.1
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.4
Vulkan
-
1.1.97
Quick Sync
-
+