HD Graphics 2500 and HD Graphics 400 - video card comparison
HD Graphics 2500
HD Graphics 400
Architecture
Gen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2011−2012)
Generation 8.0 (2014−2015)
GPU code name
Ivy Bridge GT1
Braswell GT1
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
April 2012
April 2015
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x1
Boost clock speed
1150 MHz
640 MHz
Core clock speed
650 MHz
320 MHz
Floating-point performance
13.8 gflops
134.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
22 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
392 million
189 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
6
96
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
6 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.900
7.680
Memory type
System Shared
DDR3L
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
8 GB
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
System Shared
System Shared
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.0
4.3
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.80
1.1.80