HD Graphics 400 vs Radeon R5 230

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon R5 230 with HD Graphics 400, including specs and performance data.

R5 230
2014
4 GB DDR3, 19 Watt
0.57

HD Graphics 400 outperforms R5 230 by an impressive 98% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking12071075
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.0913.13
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Generation 8.0 (2014−2015)
GPU code nameCaicosBraswell GT1
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Designreferenceno data
Release date3 April 2014 (10 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 cores16096
Core clock speedno data320 MHz
Boost clock speedno data600 MHz
Number of transistors370 million189 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt6 Watt
Texture fill rate5.0007.200
Floating-point processing power0.2 TFLOPS0.1152 TFLOPS
ROPs42
TMUs812

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).

Bus supportPCIe 1.0 x4no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16Ring Bus
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsN/Ano 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 typeDDR3DDR3L
Maximum RAM amount4 GB8 GB
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth10.67 GB/sno 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGAPortable Device Dependent
Eyefinity+-
HDMI+-

Supported technologies

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

CrossFire+-
​PowerPlay+no data
DDMA audio-no data

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1112 (11_1)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.3
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan-+

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 0.57 1.13
Recency 3 April 2014 1 April 2015
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 6 Watt

HD Graphics 400 has a 98.2% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 11 months, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 216.7% lower power consumption.

The HD Graphics 400 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon R5 230 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon R5 230 is a desktop card while HD Graphics 400 is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R5 230
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