HD Graphics 400 (Braswell) vs Radeon HD 8280E

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1177not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.05no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Gen. 8 (2015−2016)
GPU code nameKalindiBraswell
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date23 April 2013 (11 years ago)1 April 2016 (8 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 cores12812
Core clock speed450 MHz320 MHz
Boost clock speedno data640 MHz
Number of transistors1,178 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data
Texture fill rate3.600no data
Floating-point processing power0.1152 TFLOPSno data
ROPs4no data
TMUs8no 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).

InterfaceIGPno data
WidthIGPno 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 typeSystem Sharedno data
Maximum RAM amountSystem Sharedno data
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64/128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Sharedno 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 ConnectorsNo outputsno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)11.2
Shader Model6.3no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 April 2013 1 April 2016
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm

HD Graphics 400 (Braswell) has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8280E and HD Graphics 400 (Braswell). We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8280E is a desktop card while HD Graphics 400 (Braswell) is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon HD 8280E
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Intel HD Graphics 400 (Braswell)
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