P106M 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 ranking1075not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency13.13no data
ArchitectureGeneration 8.0 (2014−2015)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameBraswell GT1GP106
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date1 April 2015 (9 years ago)23 January 2019 (5 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 cores961152
Core clock speed320 MHz1291 MHz
Boost clock speed600 MHzno data
Number of transistors189 million4,400 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)6 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate7.20092.95
Floating-point processing power0.1152 TFLOPS2.974 TFLOPS
ROPs232
TMUs1272

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 3.0 x16
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 typeDDR3LGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB4 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1502 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data96.13 GB/s
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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.34.6
OpenCL3.01.2
Vulkan+1.2
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2015 23 January 2019
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 16 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 6 Watt 75 Watt

HD Graphics 400 has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 1150% lower power consumption.

P106M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics 400 and P106M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics 400 is a notebook graphics card while P106M is a mobile workstation one.


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