Radeon Instinct Vega 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)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameBraswell GT1Vega 20
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 April 2015 (9 years ago)no data (2024 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 cores96no data
Core clock speed320 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed600 MHz1500 MHz
Number of transistors189 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology14 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)6 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate7.200no data
Floating-point processing power0.1152 TFLOPSno data
ROPs2no data
TMUs12no data

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
Lengthno data267 mm
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-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 typeDDR3Lno data
Maximum RAM amount8 GBno data
Memory bus widthSystem Sharedno data
Memory clock speedSystem Shared2400 MHz
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 DependentNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12.0 (12_1)
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.34.6
OpenCL3.0no data
Vulkan+-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 14 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 6 Watt 225 Watt

HD Graphics 400 has 3650% lower power consumption.

Instinct Vega, on the other hand, has a 100% more advanced lithography process.

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

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


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Intel HD Graphics 400
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AMD Radeon Instinct Vega
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