ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP vs Quadro FX 1600M

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameG84RS880
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date1 June 2007 (17 years ago)10 September 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$149.90 no data

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 cores3240
Core clock speed625 MHz498 MHz
Number of transistors289 million181 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattno data
Texture fill rate10.001.992
Floating-point processing power0.08 TFLOPS0.03984 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs164

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 sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-HEPCIe 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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed800 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth25.6 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.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.04.1
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.11.0
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2007 10 September 2009
Chip lithography 80 nm 55 nm

ATI Mobility HD 4200 IGP has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 45.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 1600M and Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 1600M is a mobile workstation card while Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M
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