Radeon Vega 7 vs HD Graphics 400
Aggregate performance score
We've compared HD Graphics 400 and Radeon Vega 7, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.
Vega 7 outperforms HD Graphics 400 by a whopping 560% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 1075 | 530 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | 39 |
| Power efficiency | 13.13 | 11.56 |
| Architecture | Generation 8.0 (2014−2015) | GCN 5.1 (2018−2022) |
| GPU code name | Braswell GT1 | Cezanne |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Release date | 1 April 2015 (9 years ago) | 13 April 2021 (3 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 cores | 96 | 448 |
| Core clock speed | 320 MHz | 300 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 600 MHz | 1900 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 189 million | 9,800 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 14 nm | 7 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 6 Watt | 45 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 7.200 | 53.20 |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.1152 TFLOPS | 1.702 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 2 | 8 |
| TMUs | 12 | 28 |
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 | IGP |
| Supplementary power connectors | no data | None |
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 | System Shared |
| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | System Shared |
| Memory bus width | System Shared | System Shared |
| Memory clock speed | System Shared | System Shared |
| 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 Connectors | Portable Device Dependent | No outputs |
API compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | 12 (12_1) |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 6.4 |
| OpenGL | 4.3 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 2.1 |
| Vulkan | + | 1.2 |
Synthetic benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.
Gaming performance
Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.
Average FPS across all PC games
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:
| Full HD | 3−4
−633%
| 22
+633%
|
| 1440p | 4−5
−600%
| 28
+600%
|
| 4K | 3−4
−567%
| 20
+567%
|
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 1.13 | 7.46 |
| Recency | 1 April 2015 | 13 April 2021 |
| Chip lithography | 14 nm | 7 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 6 Watt | 45 Watt |
HD Graphics 400 has 650% lower power consumption.
Vega 7, on the other hand, has a 560.2% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 6 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.
The Radeon Vega 7 is our recommended choice as it beats the HD Graphics 400 in performance tests.
Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.
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