ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP vs HD Graphics 4200

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1109not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency16.96no data
ArchitectureGeneration 7.5 (2013)R400 (2004−2008)
GPU code nameHaswell GT2RS690
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date2 September 2013 (11 years ago)28 February 2007 (17 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 cores160no data
Core clock speed200 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speed850 MHzno data
Number of transistors392 million120 million
Manufacturing process technology22 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)4 Wattno data
Texture fill rate17.001.600
Floating-point processing power0.272 TFLOPSno data
ROPs24
TMUs204

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).

InterfaceRing BusPCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeSystem SharedSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory bus widthSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory clock speedSystem SharedSystem Shared
Shared memory++

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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentNo outputs

Supported technologies

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

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)9.0b (9_2)
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.32.0
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan+N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 September 2013 28 February 2007
Chip lithography 22 nm 80 nm

HD Graphics 4200 has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 263.6% more advanced lithography process.

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