GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q vs HD Graphics 400

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1078not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency12.91no data
ArchitectureGeneration 8.0 (2014−2015)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameBraswell GT1AD107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 April 2015 (9 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores962560
Core clock speed320 MHz1140 MHz
Boost clock speed600 MHz1605 MHz
Number of transistors189 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology14 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)6 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate7.200128.4
Floating-point processing power0.1152 TFLOPS8.218 TFLOPS
ROPs232
TMUs1280
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

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).

InterfaceRing BusPCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR3LGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB6 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared96 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data168.0 GB/s
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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.34.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan+1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2015 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 6 Watt 35 Watt

HD Graphics 400 has a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 483.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 4050 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 years, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics 400 and GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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