HD Graphics 400 (Braswell) vs GeForce GT 630

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking919not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.08no data
Power efficiency1.86no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Gen. 8 (2015−2016)
GPU code nameGF108Braswell
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date15 May 2012 (12 years ago)1 April 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$99.99 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores9612
Core clock speed810 MHz320 MHz
Boost clock speedno data640 MHz
Number of transistors585 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Wattno data
Texture fill rate12.96no data
Floating-point processing power0.311 TFLOPSno data
ROPs4no data
TMUs16no data

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 2.0 x16no data
Length145 mmno data
Width1-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 typeDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount2 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bit64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth28.8 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 VGAno data
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)11.2
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA2.1-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

GT 630 810
+272%
HD Graphics 400 (Braswell) 218

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 May 2012 1 April 2016
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm

HD Graphics 400 (Braswell) has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 630 and HD Graphics 400 (Braswell). We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GT 630 is a desktop card while HD Graphics 400 (Braswell) is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 630
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