Radeon PRO W7700 vs HD Graphics 400

Place in the ranking	1073	61
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	55.86
Power efficiency	13.02	18.13
Architecture	Generation 8.0 (2014−2015)	RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code name	Braswell GT1	Navi 32
Market segment	Laptop	Workstation
Release date	1 April 2015 (9 years ago)	13 November 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$999

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 cores	96	3072
Core clock speed	320 MHz	1900 MHz
Boost clock speed	600 MHz	2600 MHz
Number of transistors	189 million	28,100 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	6 Watt	190 Watt
Texture fill rate	7.200	499.2
Floating-point processing power	0.1152 TFLOPS	31.95 TFLOPS
ROPs	2	96
TMUs	12	192
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	48

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	Ring Bus	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	no data	241 mm
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x 8-pin

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	DDR3L	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	16 GB
Memory bus width	System Shared	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	576.0 GB/s

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

Portable Device Dependent

4x DisplayPort 2.1

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.1	6.7
OpenGL	4.3	4.6
OpenCL	3.0	2.2
Vulkan	+	1.3

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	1.13	49.84
Recency	1 April 2015	13 November 2023
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	16 GB
Chip lithography	14 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	6 Watt	190 Watt

HD Graphics 400 has 3066.7% lower power consumption.

PRO W7700, on the other hand, has a 4310.6% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 8 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 180% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon PRO W7700 is our recommended choice as it beats the HD Graphics 400 in performance tests.

Be aware that HD Graphics 400 is a notebook card while Radeon PRO W7700 is a workstation one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.