ATI Radeon HD 5530 vs HD Graphics (Broadwell)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1112not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 8 Broadwell (2015)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameBroadwell GT1Cedar
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date5 January 2015 (9 years ago)17 March 2011 (13 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 cores1280
Core clock speed100 MHz650 MHz
Boost clock speed850 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data292 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data19 Watt
Texture fill rateno data5.200
Floating-point processing powerno data0.104 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data8

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data170 mm
Widthno data1-slot

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 typeno dataGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data1 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data600 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data9.6 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 Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 11_1)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.0
OpenGLno data4.4
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 January 2015 17 March 2011
Chip lithography 14 nm 40 nm

HD Graphics (Broadwell) has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics (Broadwell) and Radeon HD 5530. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics (Broadwell) is a notebook card while Radeon HD 5530 is a desktop one.


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Intel HD Graphics (Broadwell)
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