ATI Radeon HD 3870 vs HD Graphics 400

Place in the ranking	1075	993
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	0.04
Power efficiency	13.13	0.95
Architecture	Generation 8.0 (2014−2015)	TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name	Braswell GT1	RV670
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	1 April 2015 (9 years ago)	19 November 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$269

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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	320
Core clock speed	320 MHz	777 MHz
Boost clock speed	600 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	189 million	666 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	6 Watt	106 Watt
Texture fill rate	7.200	12.43
Floating-point processing power	0.1152 TFLOPS	0.4973 TFLOPS
ROPs	2	16
TMUs	12	16

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	Ring Bus	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	no data	241 mm
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x 6-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	GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	512 MB
Memory bus width	System Shared	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	1126 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	72.06 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 Connectors

Portable Device Dependent

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model	5.1	4.1
OpenGL	4.3	3.3
OpenCL	3.0	N/A
Vulkan	+	N/A

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	1.44
Recency	1 April 2015	19 November 2007
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	512 MB
Chip lithography	14 nm	55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	6 Watt	106 Watt

HD Graphics 400 has an age advantage of 7 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 292.9% more advanced lithography process, and 1666.7% lower power consumption.

ATI HD 3870, on the other hand, has a 27.4% higher aggregate performance score.

The Radeon HD 3870 is our recommended choice as it beats the HD Graphics 400 in performance tests.

Be aware that HD Graphics 400 is a notebook card while Radeon HD 3870 is a desktop one.

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