HD Graphics 400 Mobile vs GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking126not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency22.41no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Generation 8.0 (2014−2015)
GPU code nameGA104Braswell GT1
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date12 January 2021 (3 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 cores512096
Core clock speed1110 MHz320 MHz
Boost clock speed1560 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistors17,400 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology8 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)125 Watt6 Watt
Texture fill rate249.67.200
Floating-point processing power15.97 TFLOPS0.1152 TFLOPS
ROPs802
TMUs16012
Tensor Cores160no data
Ray Tracing Cores40no 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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16Ring Bus

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 typeGDDR6System Shared
Maximum RAM amount8 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1750 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no 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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.55.1
OpenGL4.64.3
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2+
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 January 2021 1 April 2015
Chip lithography 8 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 125 Watt 6 Watt

RTX 3070 Mobile has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

HD Graphics 400 Mobile, on the other hand, has 1983.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile and HD Graphics 400 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile is a notebook card while HD Graphics 400 Mobile is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile
GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile
Intel HD Graphics 400 Mobile
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