GeForce4 MX 4000 vs Radeon R7 250XE

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1513
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code nameCape VerdeNV18 A4
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date21 August 2014 (10 years ago)14 December 2003 (21 year 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 cores640no data
Core clock speed860 MHz250 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million29 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Wattno data
Texture fill rate34.401.000
Floating-point processing power1.101 TFLOPSno data
ROPs162
TMUs404

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 3.0 x16AGP 8x
Lengthno data168 mm
Width1-slot1-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 typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB128 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz166 MHz
Memory bandwidth72 GB/s2.656 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA1x VGA
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)8.0
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 August 2014 14 December 2003
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 150 nm

R7 250XE has an age advantage of 10 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 435.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 250XE and GeForce4 MX 4000. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R7 250XE
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