GeForce 605 OEM vs HD Graphics 400

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1078not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency12.91no data
ArchitectureGeneration 8.0 (2014−2015)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameBraswell GT1GF119
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 April 2015 (9 years ago)2 April 2012 (12 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 cores9648
Core clock speed320 MHz523 MHz
Boost clock speed600 MHzno data
Number of transistors189 million292 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)6 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rate7.2004.184
Floating-point processing power0.1152 TFLOPS0.1004 TFLOPS
ROPs24
TMUs128

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).

InterfaceRing BusPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data145 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR3LDDR3
Maximum RAM amount8 GB512 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared897 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data14.35 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.34.6
OpenCL3.01.1
Vulkan+N/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2015 2 April 2012
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 14 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 6 Watt 25 Watt

HD Graphics 400 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 316.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics 400 and GeForce 605 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics 400 is a notebook card while GeForce 605 OEM is a desktop one.


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Intel HD Graphics 400
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