ATI 3D Rage vs ATI Radeon HD 4720

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)Mach (1992−1997)
GPU code nameRV730Mach64 GT
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date11 December 2011 (12 years ago)1 April 1996 (28 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 cores320no data
Core clock speed600 MHz44 MHz
Number of transistors514 million5 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm500 nm
Power consumption (TDP)55 Wattno data
Texture fill rate19.200.04
Floating-point processing power0.384 TFLOPSno data
ROPs81
TMUs321

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 x16PCI
Length193 mmno data
Width1-slot1-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 typeGDDR3EDO
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed667 MHz57 MHz
Memory bandwidth21.34 GB/s456.0 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)5.0
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.3N/A
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 December 2011 1 April 1996
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 500 nm

ATI HD 4720 has an age advantage of 15 years, a 51100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 809.1% more advanced lithography process.

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