ATI Radeon VE vs ATI HD 4720

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1531
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data0.03
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Rage 6 (2000−2007)
GPU code nameRV730Rage 6
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date11 December 2011 (13 years ago)19 February 2001 (23 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 MHz183 MHz
Number of transistors514 million30 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)55 Watt23 Watt
Texture fill rate19.200.55
Floating-point processing power0.384 TFLOPSno data
ROPs81
TMUs323

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 x16AGP 4x
Length193 mmno data
Width1-slot1-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 typeGDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB32 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed667 MHz183 MHz
Memory bandwidth21.34 GB/s2.928 GB/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 DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)7.0
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.31.3
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 December 2011 19 February 2001
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 32 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 180 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 55 Watt 23 Watt

ATI HD 4720 has an age advantage of 10 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 227.3% more advanced lithography process.

ATI VE, on the other hand, has 139.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4720 and Radeon VE. We've got no test results to judge.


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