HD Graphics 400 vs Radeon RX 5500

Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon RX 5500 with HD Graphics 400, including specs and performance data.

RX 5500
2019
4 GB GDDR6, 110 Watt
22.77
+1915%

RX 5500 outperforms HD Graphics 400 by a whopping 1915% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking2461073
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency14.4313.13
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)Generation 8.0 (2014−2015)
GPU code nameNavi 14Braswell GT1
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date7 October 2019 (5 years ago)1 April 2015 (9 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 cores140896
Core clock speedno data320 MHz
Boost clock speed1845 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistors6,400 million189 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt6 Watt
Texture fill rate162.47.200
Floating-point processing power5.196 TFLOPS0.1152 TFLOPS
ROPs322
TMUs8812

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16Ring Bus
Length180 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno 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 typeGDDR6DDR3L
Maximum RAM amount4 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed14000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/sno data
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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.0 (12_1)12 (11_1)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGL4.64.3
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-+

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 22.77 1.13
Recency 7 October 2019 1 April 2015
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 6 Watt

RX 5500 has a 1915% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 4 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

HD Graphics 400, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 1733.3% lower power consumption.

The Radeon RX 5500 is our recommended choice as it beats the HD Graphics 400 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon RX 5500 is a desktop card while HD Graphics 400 is a notebook one.


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