Intel HD Graphics 400 vs Intel HD Graphics 4200

Comparative analysis of Intel HD Graphics 400 and Intel HD Graphics 4200 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics 400

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 60% higher core clock speed: 320 MHz vs 200 MHz
  • 4.8x more pipelines: 96 vs 20
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 22 nm
  • 3.3x lower typical power consumption: 6 Watt vs 20 Watt
Launch date 1 April 2015 vs 3 June 2013
Core clock speed 320 MHz vs 200 MHz
Pipelines 96 vs 20
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 22 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 6 Watt vs 20 Watt

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics 4200

  • Around 33% higher boost clock speed: 850 MHz vs 640 MHz
  • Around 57% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 1720 vs 1093
Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed 850 MHz vs 640 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 1720 vs 1093

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel HD Graphics 400
GPU 2: Intel HD Graphics 4200

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
1093
1720
Name Intel HD Graphics 400 Intel HD Graphics 4200
Geekbench - OpenCL 1093 1720

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel HD Graphics 400 Intel HD Graphics 4200

Essentials

Architecture Generation 8.0 Generation 7.5
Code name Braswell GT1 Haswell GT2
Launch date 1 April 2015 3 June 2013
Place in performance rating 1702 1700
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 640 MHz 850 MHz
Core clock speed 320 MHz 200 MHz
Floating-point performance 134.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 22 nm
Pipelines 96 20
Texture fill rate 8.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 6 Watt 20 Watt
Transistor count 189 million 392 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x1 PCIe 1.0 x16

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_1) 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.4 4.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB
Memory type DDR3L
Memory bus width 64 / 128 Bit
Shared memory 1

Technologies

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