Radeon R2 (Mullins/Beema/Carrizo-L) vs HD Graphics 400 (Braswell)

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1187
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 8 (2015−2016)GCN 1.1 (2014)
GPU code nameBraswellBeema/Mullins
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 April 2016 (8 years ago)29 April 2014 (10 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 cores12128
Core clock speed320 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed640 MHz600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm

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 bus width64/128 Bit64 Bit
Shared memory++

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.212 (FL 12_0)

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

HD Graphics 400 (Braswell) 349
R2 (Mullins/Beema/Carrizo-L) 397
+13.8%

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

HD Graphics 400 (Braswell) 218
R2 (Mullins/Beema/Carrizo-L) 373
+71.1%

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

HD Graphics 400 (Braswell) 1841
R2 (Mullins/Beema/Carrizo-L) 2650
+43.9%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2016 29 April 2014
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm

HD Graphics 400 (Braswell) has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics 400 (Braswell) and Radeon R2 (Mullins/Beema/Carrizo-L). We've got no test results to judge.


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Intel HD Graphics 400 (Braswell)
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