GeForce GTX 260 OEM vs HD Graphics 5500

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking976not rated
Place by popularity100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.90no data
ArchitectureGeneration 8.0 (2014−2015)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameBroadwell GT2GT200B
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date5 September 2014 (10 years ago)8 December 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores192192
Core clock speed300 MHz518 MHz
Boost clock speed850 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,300 million1,400 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt182 Watt
Texture fill rate20.4033.15
Floating-point processing power0.3264 TFLOPS0.4147 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs2464

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceRing BusPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 6-pin

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared1792 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared448 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1008 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data112.9 GB/s
Shared memory+-

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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.14.0
OpenGL4.43.3
OpenCL3.01.1
Vulkan+N/A
CUDA-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 September 2014 8 December 2009
Chip lithography 14 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 182 Watt

HD Graphics 5500 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 292.9% more advanced lithography process, and 1113.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics 5500 and GeForce GTX 260 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics 5500 is a notebook card while GeForce GTX 260 OEM is a desktop one.


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Intel HD Graphics 5500
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