RTX 5000 Ada Generation vs HD Graphics 400

Place in the ranking	1070	16
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	13.04	20.10
Architecture	Generation 8.0 (2014−2015)	Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code name	Braswell GT1	AD102
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	1 April 2015 (9 years ago)	9 August 2023 (1 year 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	96	12800
Core clock speed	320 MHz	1155 MHz
Boost clock speed	640 MHz	2550 MHz
Number of transistors	189 million	76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	6 Watt	250 Watt
Texture fill rate	7.680	1,020
Floating-point processing power	0.1229 TFLOPS	65.28 TFLOPS
ROPs	2	176
TMUs	12	400
Tensor Cores	no data	400
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	100

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 x1	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	no data	267 mm
Width	IGP	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x 16-pin

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	DDR3L	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	32 GB
Memory bus width	System Shared	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	576.0 GB/s

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

No outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.1	6.8
OpenGL	4.3	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	3.0
Vulkan	1.1.80	1.3
CUDA	-	8.9

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	1.13	72.56
Recency	1 April 2015	9 August 2023
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	32 GB
Chip lithography	14 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	6 Watt	250 Watt

HD Graphics 400 has 4066.7% lower power consumption.

RTX 5000 Ada Generation, on the other hand, has a 6321.2% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 8 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 180% more advanced lithography process.

The RTX 5000 Ada Generation is our recommended choice as it beats the HD Graphics 400 in performance tests.

Be aware that HD Graphics 400 is a desktop card while RTX 5000 Ada Generation is a workstation one.

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