Radeon R7 (Kaveri) and HD Graphics 5500 - video card comparison

Radeon R7 (Kaveri)

HD Graphics 5500

Architecture

GCN 1.1 (2014)

Gen. 8 Broadwell (2014−2015)

GPU code name

Kaveri

Broadwell GT2

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

June 2014

January 2015

Interface

-

PCIe 2.0 x1

Boost clock speed

686 MHz

950 MHz

Core clock speed

553 MHz

300 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

2410 Million

1,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

24

Power consumption (TDP)

-

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

22.80

Memory type

-

System Shared

Maximum RAM amount

-

System Shared

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 (11_1)

OpenCL

-

2.0

OpenGL

-

4.4

Shader Model

-

5.1

Vulkan

-

1.1.80