ATI Radeon HD 4200 vs ATI X1900 XTX

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	R500 (2005−2007)	TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name	R580	RS880
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	24 January 2006 (18 years ago)	1 August 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$399	no data

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	no data	40
Core clock speed	650 MHz	500 MHz
Number of transistors	384 million	181 million
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	135 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	10.40	2.000
Floating-point processing power	no data	0.04 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	4
TMUs	16	4

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 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	242 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	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	GDDR3	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	System Shared
Memory bus width	256 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	775 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	49.6 GB/s	no 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 Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	9.0c (9_3)	10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model	3.0	4.1
OpenGL	2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)	3.3
OpenCL	N/A	1.0
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	24 January 2006	1 August 2009
Chip lithography	90 nm	55 nm

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