Radeon R6 Graphics vs NVS 4200M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1158not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.06no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameGF119Spectre Lite
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date22 February 2011 (13 years ago)17 September 2014 (10 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 cores48384
Core clock speed810 MHz533 MHz
Boost clock speedno data600 MHz
Number of transistors292 million2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate6.48014.40
Floating-point processing power0.1555 TFLOPS0.4608 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs824

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
InterfaceMXMIGP
Widthno dataIGP

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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed800 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth12.8 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

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.0
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 February 2011 17 September 2014
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 15 Watt

R6 Graphics has an age advantage of 3 years, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 66.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between NVS 4200M and Radeon R6 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that NVS 4200M is a mobile workstation card while Radeon R6 Graphics is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA NVS 4200M
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