Intel HD Graphics 5500 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of Intel HD Graphics 5500 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT Mac Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Intel HD Graphics 5500

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics 5500

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 2 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 65 nm

Launch date	5 September 2014 vs 28 June 2007
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 65 nm

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT Mac Edition

6.5x more core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 100 MHz
Around 67% higher pipelines: 40 vs 24

Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 100 MHz
Pipelines	40 vs 24

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel HD Graphics 5500
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT Mac Edition

Name	Intel HD Graphics 5500	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT Mac Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark	594
PassMark - G2D Mark	230
Geekbench - OpenCL	2262
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	3.422
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	195.811
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	781
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	754
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1397
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	781
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	754
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1397
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	233

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel HD Graphics 5500	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 8.0	TeraScale
Code name	Broadwell GT2	M74
Launch date	5 September 2014	28 June 2007
Place in performance rating	1478	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	950 MHz
Core clock speed	100 MHz	650 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	24	40
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt
Transistor count	1,300 million	180 million
Floating-point performance		52 gflops
Texture fill rate		2.6 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x1	PCIe 1.0 x16
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Memory bus width	64 / 128 Bit	64 Bit
Shared memory	1
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		12.8 GB / s
Memory clock speed		1600 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3
Technologies
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