ATI Radeon HD 4250 IGP vs ATI X800
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 1377 | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | 0.50 | no data |
| Architecture | R400 (2004−2008) | TeraScale (2005−2013) |
| GPU code name | R430 | RS880 |
| Market segment | Desktop | Desktop |
| Release date | 1 October 2004 (20 years ago) | 1 March 2010 (14 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 | no data | 40 |
| Core clock speed | 400 MHz | 498 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | no data | 560 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 160 million | 181 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 110 nm | 55 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 30 Watt | no data |
| Texture fill rate | 4.800 | 2.240 |
| Floating-point processing power | no data | 0.0448 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 12 | 4 |
| TMUs | 12 | 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 |
| Width | 1-slot | IGP |
| 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 | DDR | System Shared |
| Maximum RAM amount | 256 MB | System Shared |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | System Shared |
| Memory clock speed | 350 MHz | System Shared |
| Memory bandwidth | 22.4 GB/s | no data |
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 VGA, 1x S-Video | No outputs |
API compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 9.0b (9_2) | 10.1 (10_1) |
| Shader Model | no data | 4.1 |
| OpenGL | 2.0 | 3.3 |
| OpenCL | N/A | 1.0 |
| Vulkan | N/A | N/A |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 1 October 2004 | 1 March 2010 |
| Chip lithography | 110 nm | 55 nm |
ATI HD 4250 IGP has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between Radeon X800 and Radeon HD 4250 IGP. We've got no test results to judge.
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