Your Graphics Research
Your Graphics Research
| Recommended System Requirements | ||
|---|---|---|
| Game | Intel Q43 Express Chipset | Radeon HD 3400 Series |
| Resident Evil 8 | 6769% | 4249% |
| New World | 4573% | 2859% |
| Battlefield 2042 | 6769% | 4249% |
| Far Cry 6 | 7540% | 4737% |
| Grand Theft Auto VI | 7330% | 4604% |
| FIFA 22 | 2564% | 1586% |
| Forza Horizon 5 | 4059% | 2533% |
| Star Citizen | 4536% | 2835% |
| Dying Light 2 | 7073% | 4441% |
| Battlefield 6 | 6769% | 4249% |
In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon HD 3400 Series are significantly better than the Intel Q43 Express Chipset.
The Q43 Express Chipset was released less than a year after the HD 3400, and so they are likely to have similar driver support for optimizing performance when running the latest games.
Both GPUs exhibit very poor performance, so rather than upgrading from one to the other you should consider looking at more powerful GPUs. Neither of these will be able to run the latest games in any playable way.
The HD 3400 has 256 MB video memory, but the Q43 Express Chipset does not have an entry, so the two GPUs cannot be reliably compared in this area.
The HD 3400 has 40 Shader Processing Units but the Q43 Express Chipset does not have an entry, so the two GPUs cannot be reliably compared in this area.
The Radeon HD 3400 Series requires 65 Watts to run but there is no entry for the Q43 Express Chipset.
| Core Speed | 533 MHz |  | vs | 400 MHz | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boost Clock | - | vs | - | ||
| Architecture | Eaglelake | RV620 | |||
| OC Potential | - | vs |
| None | |
| Driver Support | - | vs | - | ||
| Release Date | 01 Aug 2008 | | vs | 01 Jan 2008 | |
| GPU Link | GD Link | GD Link | |||
| Approved | | | |||
| Comparison | |||||
| Memory | N/A | vs | | 256 MB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memory Speed | - | vs | - | ||
| Memory Bus | - | vs | | 64 Bit | |
| Memory Type | DDR3 | | vs | | DDR3 |
| Memory Bandwidth | - | vs | - | ||
| L2 Cache | - | vs | - | ||
| Delta Color Compression | no | vs | no | ||
| Memory Performance | 0% | |
vs | |
0% |
| Comparison | |||||
| Shader Processing Units | - | vs | | 40 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actual Shader Performance | - | vs | | 1% | |
| Technology | - | vs | | 55nm | |
| Texture Mapping Units | - | vs | | 4 | |
| Texture Rate | - | vs | | 1.6 GTexel/s | |
| Render Output Units | - | vs | | 4 | |
| Pixel Rate | - | vs | | 1.6 GPixel/s | |
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Digital Resolution (WxH) | - | vs | | 2560x1600 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VGA Connections | 0 | vs | | 1 | |
| DVI Connections | 0 | vs | | 1 | |
| HDMI Connections | 0 | vs | | 1 | |
| DisplayPort Connections | - | vs | - | ||
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Power | - | 65 Watts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recommended PSU | - | - | |||
| DirectX | 10 | | vs | | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shader Model | 4.0 | vs | | 4.1 | |
| Open GL | 2.1 | vs | | 3.2 | |
| Open CL | - | vs | - | ||
| Notebook GPU | no | no | |||
| SLI/Crossfire | no | vs | no | ||
| Dedicated | no | vs | | yes | |
| Comparison | |||||
| Recommended Processor | - | - | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recommended RAM | - | - | |||
| Maximum Recommended Gaming Resolution | - | - | |||
| Performance Value |  | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mini Review | Intel Q43 Express Chipset comes embedded on the Intel Core 2 Quad/Core 2 Duo CPUS and features an Integrated GPU called Intel GMA X4500. Various Intel Chipsets come with the Intel GMA X4500 but this one (and the Q45) seem to deliver the best performance. However, due to its characteristics (e.g. Shared Memory) the performance is still very limited but might be enough to play today's games at low or medium settings excluding, however, very demanding games like Metro 2033 or The Witcher II, that are probably unplayable, even at the lowest settings. Note 1: Intel GMA X4500 does support DirectX 10 but even the most forgiving games might be unplayable due to the demand level. | Radeon HD 3400 Series is not a GPU but instead a combination between Radeon HD 3450 and Radeon HD 3470 whose rank is a balance between the two and that exists for System Requirements purposes only. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recommended CPU | - | - | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Possible GPU Upgrades | N/A | N/A | |||
| GPU Variants | - | - | |||