Radeon Graphics 448SP Mobile vs HD Graphics 5500

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking972not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.96no data
ArchitectureGeneration 8.0 (2014−2015)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameBroadwell GT2Barcelo
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date5 September 2014 (10 years ago)6 January 2022 (2 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 cores192448
Core clock speed300 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed850 MHz1800 MHz
Number of transistors1,300 million10,700 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rate20.4050.40
Floating-point processing power0.3264 TFLOPS1.613 TFLOPS
ROPs38
TMUs2428

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 BusIGP
WidthIGPno 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 typeSystem SharedSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory bus widthSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory clock speedSystem SharedSystem Shared
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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL3.02.1
Vulkan+1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 September 2014 6 January 2022
Chip lithography 14 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 45 Watt

HD Graphics 5500 has 200% lower power consumption.

Graphics 448SP Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics 5500 and Radeon Graphics 448SP Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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Intel HD Graphics 5500
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AMD Radeon Graphics 448SP Mobile
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