HD Graphics 400 vs Radeon HD 7570

Place in the ranking	960	1073
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	1.84	13.13
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	Generation 8.0 (2014−2015)
GPU code name	Turks	Braswell GT1
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	5 January 2012 (12 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 cores	480	96
Core clock speed	650 MHz	320 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	600 MHz
Number of transistors	716 million	189 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	60 Watt	6 Watt
Texture fill rate	15.60	7.200
Floating-point processing power	0.624 TFLOPS	0.1152 TFLOPS
ROPs	8	2
TMUs	24	12

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 2.0 x16	Ring Bus
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no 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 type	DDR3, GDDR5	DDR3L
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	64 GB/s	no data
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 Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	Portable Device Dependent
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	5.0	5.1
OpenGL	4.4	4.3
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
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	1.58	1.13
Recency	5 January 2012	1 April 2015
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	8 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	60 Watt	6 Watt

HD 7570 has a 39.8% higher aggregate performance score.

HD Graphics 400, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 900% lower power consumption.

The Radeon HD 7570 is our recommended choice as it beats the HD Graphics 400 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7570 is a desktop card while HD Graphics 400 is a notebook one.

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