ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP and ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm
Around 90% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 260 vs 137

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 September 2009 vs 28 June 2007
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 65 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	260 vs 137

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

Around 19% higher core clock speed: 594 MHz vs 498 MHz
Around 21% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 110 vs 91

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	594 MHz vs 498 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	110 vs 91

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

110

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

260

137

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP	ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	91	110
PassMark - G2D Mark	260	137
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	511
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	511

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP	ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO AGP
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	TeraScale
Code name	RS880	RV630
Launch date	10 September 2009	28 June 2007
Place in performance rating	1157	1160
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	498 MHz	594 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	65 nm
Transistor count	181 million	390 million
Floating-point performance		142.56 gflops
Pipelines		120
Texture fill rate		4.75 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		35 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory bandwidth		12.67 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		792 MHz
Memory type		DDR2