Radeon E9174 MXM vs HD Graphics 5500

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking970not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.97no data
ArchitectureGeneration 8.0 (2014−2015)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameBroadwell GT2Lexa
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date5 September 2014 (10 years ago)3 October 2017 (7 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 cores192512
Core clock speed300 MHz1124 MHz
Boost clock speed850 MHz1219 MHz
Number of transistors1,300 million2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate20.4039.01
Floating-point processing power0.3264 TFLOPS1.248 TFLOPS
ROPs316
TMUs2432

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 BusMXM-A (3.0)
WidthIGPno data
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 SharedGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared4 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data96 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 DependentNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL3.02.0
Vulkan+1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 September 2014 3 October 2017
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 50 Watt

HD Graphics 5500 has 233.3% lower power consumption.

E9174 MXM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics 5500 and Radeon E9174 MXM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics 5500 is a desktop card while Radeon E9174 MXM is a notebook one.


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Intel HD Graphics 5500
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