ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 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

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 53% higher core clock speed: 498 MHz vs 325 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 130 nm
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 260 vs 258
Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 511 vs 484
Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 511 vs 484

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 September 2009 vs 14 April 2004
Core clock speed	498 MHz vs 325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 130 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	260 vs 258
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	511 vs 484
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	511 vs 484

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6800

Around 24% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 113 vs 91

Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	113 vs 91

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

113

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

260

258

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

511

484

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

511

484

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce 6800
PassMark - G3D Mark	91	113
PassMark - G2D Mark	260	258
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	511	484
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	511	484

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce 6800
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Curie
Code name	RS880	NV40 A1
Launch date	10 September 2009	14 April 2004
Place in performance rating	1151	1154
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$39.99
Price now		$39.99
Value for money (0-100)		3.61
Technical info
Core clock speed	498 MHz	325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	130 nm
Transistor count	181 million	222 million
Texture fill rate		5.2 GTexel / s
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	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		700 MHz
Memory type		DDR