HD Graphics (Skylake) vs HD Graphics 400 (Braswell)

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Gen. 8 (2015−2016)	Gen. 9 Skylake (2015−2016)
GPU code name	Braswell	Skylake GT1
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	1 April 2016 (8 years ago)	1 September 2015 (8 years ago)
Current price	no data	$390

Detailed specifications

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 cores	12	12
Core clock speed	320 MHz	300 MHz
Boost clock speed	640 MHz	800 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	14 nm

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	no data	DDR3L/LPDDR3
Memory bus width	64/128 Bit	64/128 Bit
Shared memory	+	+

Supported technologies

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

Quick Sync

no data

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API compatibility

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

DirectX

11.2

12_1

Pros & cons summary

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Recency

1 April 2016

1 September 2015

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