Quadro4 200 NVS vs ATI Radeon HD 4200

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
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code nameRS880NV17 A3
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date1 August 2009 (15 years ago)22 December 2003 (20 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 cores40no data
Core clock speed500 MHz250 MHz
Number of transistors181 million29 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data11 Watt
Texture fill rate2.0001.000
Floating-point processing power0.04 TFLOPSno data
ROPs42
TMUs44

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 x16AGP 4x
Lengthno data168 mm
WidthIGP1-slot
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 SharedDDR
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared64 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data8 GB/s
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 outputs1x LFH60

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)8.0
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.31.3
OpenCL1.0N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 August 2009 22 December 2003
Chip lithography 55 nm 150 nm

ATI HD 4200 has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 172.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4200 and Quadro4 200 NVS. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 4200 is a desktop card while Quadro4 200 NVS is a workstation one.


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