Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 500 vs Radeon R7 (Kaveri)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	960	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	GCN 1.1 (2014)	PowerVR SGX5 (2008−2011)
GPU code name	Kaveri	GMA 500
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	4 June 2014 (10 years ago)	1 November 2008 (16 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 cores	512	4
Core clock speed	553 MHz	200 MHz
Boost clock speed	686 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	2410 Million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm

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).

Laptop size

medium sized

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 bus width	64/128 Bit	no data
Shared memory	+	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX

12 (FL 12_0)

10.1

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	4 June 2014	1 November 2008
Chip lithography	28 nm	130 nm

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