Intel HD Graphics 4400 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

Comparative analysis of Intel HD Graphics 4400 and NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Intel HD Graphics 4400

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics 4400

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 9 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 22 nm vs 110 nm
5.4x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 108 Watt

Launch date	3 September 2013 vs 14 November 2005
Manufacturing process technology	22 nm vs 110 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 108 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

Around 57% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 350 MHz
2.9x more texture fill rate: 13.2 GTexel / s vs 4.6 GTexel / s

Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	13.2 GTexel / s vs 4.6 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel HD Graphics 4400
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

Name	Intel HD Graphics 4400	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512
PassMark - G3D Mark	524
PassMark - G2D Mark	275
Geekbench - OpenCL	2143
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	7.844
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	154.696
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.958
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	9.084
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	8.335
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	817
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1381
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3044
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	817
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1381
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3044
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	152

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel HD Graphics 4400	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 7.5	Curie
Code name	Haswell GT2	G70
Launch date	3 September 2013	14 November 2005
Place in performance rating	1421	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$649
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1150 MHz
Core clock speed	350 MHz	550 MHz
Floating-point performance	46 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	22 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	20
Texture fill rate	4.6 GTexel / s	13.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	108 Watt
Transistor count	392 million	302 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		228 mm
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.3	2.1
Memory
Memory bus width	64 / 128 Bit	256 Bit
Shared memory	1
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory bandwidth		54.4 GB / s
Memory clock speed		1700 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3
Technologies
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