ATI 3D Rage IIC PCI vs HD Graphics

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1148not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.52no data
ArchitectureGeneration 7.0 (2012−2013)Rage 2 (1997)
GPU code nameIvy Bridge GT1Rage IIC
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 April 2012 (12 years ago)1 April 1997 (27 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 cores48no data
Core clock speed650 MHz60 MHz
Boost clock speed1050 MHzno data
Number of transistors392 million5 million
Manufacturing process technology22 nm500 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Wattno data
Texture fill rate6.3000.06
Floating-point processing power0.1008 TFLOPSno data
ROPs11
TMUs61

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCI
WidthIGP1-slot

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 SharedSDR
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared2 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared83 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data664.0 MB/s

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 outputs1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (11_0)5.0
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.0N/A
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.1.80N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2012 1 April 1997
Chip lithography 22 nm 500 nm

HD Graphics has an age advantage of 15 years, and a 2172.7% more advanced lithography process.

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