ATI Radeon HD 4250 IGP vs GeForce GTX 950M

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking556not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.20no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameGM107RS880
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date13 March 2015 (9 years ago)1 March 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 cores64040
Core clock speed914 MHz498 MHz
Boost clock speed1124 MHz560 MHz
Number of transistors1,870 million181 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattno data
Texture fill rate44.962.240
Floating-point processing power1.439 TFLOPS0.0448 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs404

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Bus supportPCI Express 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 1.0 x16
Widthno dataIGP
SLI options+-

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 typeDDR3 or GDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1000 or 2500 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth32 or 80 GB/sno data
Shared memory-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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs
VGA аnalog display support+no data
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support+no data
HDMI+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

GameStream+-
GeForce ShadowPlay+-
GPU Boost2.0no data
GameWorks+-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder+-
Optimus+-
BatteryBoost+-
Ansel+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model5.14.1
OpenGL4.53.3
OpenCL1.21.0
Vulkan1.1.126N/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 March 2015 1 March 2010
Chip lithography 28 nm 55 nm

GTX 950M has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 96.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 950M and Radeon HD 4250 IGP. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 950M is a notebook card while Radeon HD 4250 IGP is a desktop one.


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