HD Graphics 400 vs FirePro W4300

Place in the ranking	530	1078
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	10.30	12.91
Architecture	GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)	Generation 8.0 (2014−2015)
GPU code name	Bonaire	Braswell GT1
Market segment	Workstation	Laptop
Release date	1 December 2015 (9 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 cores	768	96
Core clock speed	930 MHz	320 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	600 MHz
Number of transistors	2,080 million	189 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	6 Watt
Texture fill rate	44.64	7.200
Floating-point processing power	1.428 TFLOPS	0.1152 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	2
TMUs	48	12

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	Ring Bus
Length	171 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	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 type	GDDR5	DDR3L
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	96 GB/s	no 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 Connectors

4x mini-DisplayPort

Portable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_0)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	6.3	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.3
OpenCL	2.0	3.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	+

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	7.51	1.13
Recency	1 December 2015	1 April 2015
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	8 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	6 Watt

FirePro W4300 has a 564.6% higher aggregate performance score, and an age advantage of 8 months.

HD Graphics 400, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 733.3% lower power consumption.

The FirePro W4300 is our recommended choice as it beats the HD Graphics 400 in performance tests.

Be aware that FirePro W4300 is a workstation card while HD Graphics 400 is a notebook one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.