ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4100 IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 405

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4100 IGP and NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 405 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4100 IGP

NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 405

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4100 IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 90 nm

Launch date	1 November 2009 vs 11 October 2004
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 90 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 405

Around 21% higher core clock speed: 425 MHz vs 350 MHz

Core clock speed	425 MHz vs 350 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4100 IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 405

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4100 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 405
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	6.025
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	512.106
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.497
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	19.201
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	83.628
PassMark - G3D Mark		27
PassMark - G2D Mark		56

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4100 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 405
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Curie
Code name	RS880	C61
Launch date	1 November 2009	11 October 2004
Place in performance rating	1575	1578
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	350 MHz	425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	90 nm
Transistor count	181 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCI
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1