HD Graphics 400 vs FirePro W4300

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared FirePro W4300 with HD Graphics 400, including specs and performance data.

FirePro W4300
2015
4 GB GDDR5, 50 Watt
7.50
+564%

W4300 outperforms HD Graphics 400 by a whopping 564% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking5241070
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency10.3913.04
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Generation 8.0 (2014−2015)
GPU code nameBonaireBraswell GT1
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date1 December 2015 (8 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 cores76896
Core clock speed930 MHz320 MHz
Boost clock speedno data640 MHz
Number of transistors2,080 million189 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt6 Watt
Texture fill rate44.647.680
Floating-point processing power1.428 TFLOPS0.1229 TFLOPS
ROPs162
TMUs4812

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 x16PCIe 3.0 x1
Length171 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
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 typeGDDR5DDR3L
Maximum RAM amount4 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1500 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 Connectors4x mini-DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.35.1
OpenGL4.64.3
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.80

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 7.50 1.13
Recency 1 December 2015 1 April 2015
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 6 Watt

FirePro W4300 has a 563.7% higher aggregate performance score, and an age advantage of 8 months.

HD Graphics 400, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 733.3% lower power consumption.

The FirePro W4300 is our recommended choice as it beats the HD Graphics 400 in performance tests.

Be aware that FirePro W4300 is a workstation graphics card while HD Graphics 400 is a desktop one.


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