HD Graphics 5500 vs FirePro D500

Place in performance ranking	395	933
Place by popularity	not in top-100	77
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	2.80	0.06
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	Gen. 8 Broadwell (2014−2015)
GPU code name	Tahiti	Broadwell GT2
Market segment	Workstation	Laptop
Release date	18 January 2014 (10 years ago)	5 January 2015 (9 years ago)
Current price	$475	$410

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

FirePro D500 has 4567% better value for money than HD Graphics 5500.

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1536	24
Core clock speed	725 MHz	300 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	950 MHz
Number of transistors	4,313 million	1,300 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	274 Watt	15 Watt
Texture fill rate	69.60	22.80
Floating-point performance	2,227 gflops	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on FirePro D500 and HD Graphics 5500 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x1
Length	279 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	384 Bit	64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5080 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	243.8 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	no data	+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI

No outputs

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
OpenCL	1.2	2.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.1.80

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

900p	90−95 +592%	13 −592%
Full HD	70−75 +600%	10 −600%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

4−5

0−1

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3	0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	4−5	0−1
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5	0−1
Far Cry 5	2−3	0−1
Far Cry New Dawn	4−5	0−1
Forza Horizon 4	4−5	0−1
Hitman 3	4−5	0−1
Horizon Zero Dawn	14−16 +1300%	1−2 −1300%
Red Dead Redemption 2	6	0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	9−10 +800%	1−2 −800%
Watch Dogs: Legion	12−14 +1100%	1−2 −1100%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3	0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	4−5	0−1
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5	0−1
Far Cry 5	2−3	0−1
Far Cry New Dawn	4−5	0−1
Forza Horizon 4	4−5	0−1
Hitman 3	4−5	0−1
Horizon Zero Dawn	14−16 +1300%	1−2 −1300%
Red Dead Redemption 2	3−4	0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	9−10 +800%	1−2 −800%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	4	0−1
Watch Dogs: Legion	12−14 +1100%	1−2 −1100%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3	0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	4−5	0−1
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5	0−1
Far Cry 5	2−3	0−1
Forza Horizon 4	4−5	0−1
Horizon Zero Dawn	14−16 +1300%	1−2 −1300%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	9−10 +800%	1−2 −800%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	2	0−1
Watch Dogs: Legion	12−14 +1100%	1−2 −1100%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

3−4

0−1

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	2−3	0−1
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2	0−1

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	1−2	0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	4−5	0−1
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2	0−1
Far Cry 5	2−3	0−1
Forza Horizon 4	1−2	0−1
Hitman 3	7−8	0−1
Horizon Zero Dawn	5−6	0−1
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	1−2	0−1

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

4−5

0−1

4K
High Preset

Far Cry New Dawn	1−2	0−1
Horizon Zero Dawn	1−2	0−1

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3	0−1
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	0−1	0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	0−1	0−1
Far Cry 5	0−1	0−1
Horizon Zero Dawn	1−2	0−1
Metro Exodus	4−5	0−1