HD Graphics 400 vs ATI Radeon HD 4860

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1070
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data13.04
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Generation 8.0 (2014−2015)
GPU code nameRV790Braswell GT1
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date9 September 2009 (15 years ago)1 April 2015 (9 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 cores64096
Core clock speed700 MHz320 MHz
Boost clock speedno data640 MHz
Number of transistors959 million189 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)130 Watt6 Watt
Texture fill rate22.407.680
Floating-point processing power0.896 TFLOPS0.1229 TFLOPS
ROPs162
TMUs3212

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x1
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR5DDR3L
Maximum RAM amount512 MB8 GB
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed750 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth96 GB/sno 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 (11_1)
Shader Model4.15.1
OpenGL3.34.3
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.1.80

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 September 2009 1 April 2015
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 130 Watt 6 Watt

HD Graphics 400 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 292.9% more advanced lithography process, and 2066.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4860 and HD Graphics 400. We've got no test results to judge.


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