NVIDIA GeForce 305M vs Intel HD Graphics 400 (Braswell)

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 8 (2015−2016)GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code nameBraswelln11m-lp1
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 April 2016 (7 years old)10 January 2010 (14 years old)
Current priceno data$163

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1216
CUDA coresno data16
Core clock speed320 MHz525 MHz
Boost clock speed640 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data260 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data14 Watt
Texture fill rateno data4.200
Floating-point performanceno data36.8 gflops
Gigaflopsno data55

Size and compatibility

Information on HD Graphics 400 (Braswell) and GeForce 305M compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Bus supportno dataPCI-E 2.0
Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16

Memory

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 typeno dataGDDR2, GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3
Maximum RAM amountno dataUp to 512 MB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speedno dataUp to 700 (DDR3), Up to 700 (GDDR3) MHz
Memory bandwidthno data11.2 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectorsno dataDisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI
Multi monitor supportno data+
HDMIno data+
Maximum VGA resolutionno data2048x1536

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power managementno data8.0

API support

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

DirectX11.211.1 (10_1)
Shader Modelno data4.1
OpenGLno data2.1
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkanno dataN/A
CUDAno data+

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 1 April 2016 10 January 2010
Chip lithography 14 nm 40 nm

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