Intel's 14nm Broadwell-U HD 5500 iGPU Performance Numbers Revealed - 32% Increase over Intel HD 4400

There hasn't been much news on the Intel front for a long time now but David Bennett over at The Dave's Channel has revealed the performance numbers for the integrated graphics of Intel's i7-5500U. This particular ULV processor contains the latest (but not strongest) Intel Hd 5500 graphics, which along with its big brother, the HD 6000, bring much needed graphical functioning gains in the iGPU sector.

A stock slide showing the size difference betwixt a Haswell-Y and Broadwell-Y SKU @Intel Public Domain

Benchmarks for Intel HD Graphics 5500 leak out - 60% clock for clock gains over 4400

Intel's 14nm Broadwell-U Processors will exist launching in nearly a week and peradventure 1 of the well-nigh exciting aspects of the entire serial are the (relatively) incredibly powerful iGPUs. I never thought I would utilize the words 'iGPU' and 'powerful' in the aforementioned sentence, merely the Intel HD 6000 series is but that. Sadly however, sweclockers tested the Intel i7-5500U and not the i7-55 5 0U so we can't get a taste of the 6000 series, which would honestly accept been something. Anyways, without further ado, given beneath is the (performance) criterion score from 3DMark Vantage:

Now here's the thing, the Intel HD 4400 iGPU only manages a (relatively) measly P score of around 3800, so with the HD 5500 graphics getting 5124, we are already seeing quite a big spring. Merely it gets fifty-fifty better. The Intel Hard disk Graphics 5500 only has 24 EUs, whereas the Intel Hard disk drive 6000 graphics has 48. Thats roughly double the processing ability right there, so I imagine it would brand for quite a decent iGPU indeed. Infact, the Hard disk drive 6000 should, by my calculations, shell AMD'due south flagship Kaveri APU, which scores in the general vicinity of 7000 P score. Considering the fact that the i7-5500U has a max TDP (yes, max T DP not SDP) of 15W, that's pretty epic.

Broadwell-U	Cores / Threads	CPU Clock/Boost	Intel Hard disk drive Graphics	Max GPU Clock	TDP
Core i7-5500U	ii/four	2.4/3.0 GHz	HD 5500	950 MHz	15 Westward
Core i7-4510U	2/4	two.1/3.1 GHz	Hard disk 4400	1100 MHz	15 Due west

Ofcourse, nosotros wont stop here and dissect this leak a bit further. If you notice, the older iGPU is clocked higher, then to truly see a comparison on the architectural level and measure the design improvements, we have to remove this unfair advantage. If you divide the P Scores by the clock rate of the GPU we tin go a per clock comparing and the results do not disappoint. The HD Graphics 5500 is around 60% faster than the HD Graphics 4400 at the same clocks showing an incredible architectural improvement. Nosotros accept to go on in mind that the Hard disk 5500 can never touch the 1150 clock (without messing with the delicate residual that is the TDP of an SoC) so the 60% potential increase is not practically achievable. Nonetheless, 5124 P Score for this kind of TDP level is pretty astonishing.

Source: https://wccftech.com/broadwellu-intel-hd-5500-igpu-performance-numbers-revealed/

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