HD Graphics 400 vs GeForce 8800 GS

Place in the ranking	1129	1075
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	0.57	13.13
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	Generation 8.0 (2014−2015)
GPU code name	G92	Braswell GT1
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	31 January 2008 (16 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	96	96
Core clock speed	550 MHz	320 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	600 MHz
Number of transistors	754 million	189 million
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	105 Watt	6 Watt
Texture fill rate	26.40	7.200
Floating-point processing power	0.264 TFLOPS	0.1152 TFLOPS
ROPs	12	2
TMUs	48	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 1.0 x16	Ring Bus
Length	229 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	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	GDDR3	DDR3L
Maximum RAM amount	384 MB	8 GB
Memory bus width	192 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	38.4 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	-	+

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

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Portable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	4.0	5.1
OpenGL	3.3	4.3
OpenCL	1.1	3.0
Vulkan	N/A	+
CUDA	1.1	-

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	0.86	1.13
Recency	31 January 2008	1 April 2015
Maximum RAM amount	384 MB	8 GB
Chip lithography	65 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	105 Watt	6 Watt

HD Graphics 400 has a 31.4% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 7 years, a 2033.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 364.3% more advanced lithography process, and 1650% lower power consumption.

The HD Graphics 400 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce 8800 GS in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce 8800 GS 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.