Intel HD 500 vs AMD Radeon Vega 8

Compare Intel HD 500 vs AMD Radeon Vega 8, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

46 points

593 points

1189% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

1 FPS

13 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS

10 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

1 FPS

12 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

0 FPS

5 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

1070 points

8763 points

718% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

1362 points

8956 points

557% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

913 points

9296 points

918% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

1240 points

11397 points

819% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

200 MHz

300 MHz

49% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

650 MHz

2000 MHz

207% significantly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

6 W

650% significantly lower TDP

45 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

1.3 Gigapixels/s

16 Gigapixels/s

1130% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

7.8 Gigatexels/s

64 Gigatexels/s

720% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

433% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

166% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

545th of 586

309th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 September

2021 January

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

HD 500 vs Radeon Vega 8 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon Vega 8 graphics card is better than the HD 500 in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the HD 500 has a significantly lower TDP at 6 W when compared to the Radeon Vega 8 at 45 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon Vega 8 is better than the HD 500.