ATI Radeon HD 4200 vs RX 580

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking239not rated
Place by popularity1not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation19.17no data
Power efficiency8.86no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code namePolaris 20RS880
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)1 August 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$229 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores230440
Core clock speed1257 MHz500 MHz
Boost clock speed1340 MHzno data
Number of transistors5,700 million181 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)185 Wattno data
Texture fill rate193.02.000
Floating-point processing power6.175 TFLOPS0.04 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs1444

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 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno 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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount8 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed2000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/sno data
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 HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model6.44.1
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL2.01.0
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

RX 580 8855
+7877%
ATI HD 4200 111

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

RX 580 44344
+18690%
ATI HD 4200 236

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 1 August 2009
Chip lithography 14 nm 55 nm

RX 580 has an age advantage of 7 years, and a 292.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 580 and Radeon HD 4200. We've got no test results to judge.


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