Radeon RX 560D vs ATI HD 4250

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1311not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.88no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameRV620Polaris 21
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date25 February 2009 (15 years ago)4 July 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$99

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 cores40896
Core clock speed594 MHz1090 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1175 MHz
Number of transistors181 million3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate2.37665.80
Floating-point processing power0.04752 TFLOPS2.106 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs456

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 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Lengthno data170 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDR2GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount512 MB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed396 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.336 GB/s96 GB/s
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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model4.16.4
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 February 2009 4 July 2017
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 65 Watt

ATI HD 4250 has 160% lower power consumption.

RX 560D, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 292.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4250 and Radeon RX 560D. We've got no test results to judge.


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