ATI Rage Mobility-M4 vs Radeon R7 450 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)	Rage 4 (1998−1999)
GPU code name	Cape Verde	M4
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	30 June 2016 (8 years ago)	1 October 1999 (25 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 cores	512	no data
Core clock speed	925 MHz	105 MHz
Number of transistors	1,500 million	8 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	250 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	65 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	29.60	0.21
Floating-point processing power	0.9472 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	16	2
TMUs	32	2

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	AGP 4x
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

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 type	GDDR5	SDR
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	16 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz	105 MHz
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	840.0 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 Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 1x DisplayPort 1.2	1x DB13W3
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	6.0
Shader Model	6.5 (5.1)	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.2
OpenCL	2.1 (1.2)	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.170	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	30 June 2016	1 October 1999
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	16 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	250 nm

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