HD Graphics 405 vs Radeon R7 250 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1163
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data8.48
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Generation 8.0 (2014−2015)
GPU code nameOlandBraswell GT1
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date8 October 2013 (11 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 cores384128
Core clock speed1000 MHz200 MHz
Boost clock speed1050 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistors950 million189 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt6 Watt
Texture fill rate25.209.600
Floating-point processing power0.8064 TFLOPS0.1536 TFLOPS
ROPs82
TMUs2416

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 3.0 x8Ring Bus
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth32 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGAPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.3
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.131+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 October 2013 1 April 2015
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 6 Watt

HD Graphics 405 has an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 983.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 250 OEM and HD Graphics 405. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R7 250 OEM is a desktop card while HD Graphics 405 is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM
Radeon R7 250 OEM
Intel HD Graphics 405
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