ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 IGP vs GeForce G105M
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Architecture | Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013) | TeraScale (2005−2013) |
| GPU code name | GT218 | RS880 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Desktop |
| Release date | 16 July 2009 (15 years ago) | 1 May 2010 (14 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 | 8 | 40 |
| Core clock speed | 500 MHz | 500 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 260 million | 181 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | 55 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 14 Watt | 9 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 4.000 | 2.000 |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.03424 TFLOPS | 0.04 TFLOPS |
| Gigaflops | 38 | no data |
| ROPs | 4 | 4 |
| TMUs | 8 | 4 |
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).
| Bus support | PCI-E 2.0 | no data |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
| Width | no data | 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 | GDDR3 | System Shared |
| Maximum RAM amount | Up to 512 MB | System Shared |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | System Shared |
| Memory clock speed | 500 (DDR2)/700 (GDDR3) MHz | System Shared |
| Memory bandwidth | 8 (DDR2)/11 (GDDR3) | no data |
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 | VGADual Link DVISingle Link DVIDisplayPortHDMI | No outputs |
| Multi monitor support | + | no data |
| HDMI | + | - |
| Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | no data |
Supported technologies
Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| Power management | 8.0 | no data |
API compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_1) | 10.1 (10_1) |
| Shader Model | 4.1 | 4.1 |
| OpenGL | 2.1 | 3.3 |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | 1.0 |
| Vulkan | N/A | N/A |
| CUDA | + | - |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 16 July 2009 | 1 May 2010 |
| Chip lithography | 40 nm | 55 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 14 Watt | 9 Watt |
GeForce G105M has a 37.5% more advanced lithography process.
ATI Mobility HD 4225 IGP, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 months, and 55.6% lower power consumption.
We couldn't decide between GeForce G105M and Mobility Radeon HD 4225 IGP. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that GeForce G105M is a notebook card while Mobility Radeon HD 4225 IGP is a desktop one.
Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.
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