ATI Radeon HD 4200 IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 4200 IGP and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Radeon HD 4200 IGP

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4200 IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later

Launch date	1 August 2009 vs 1 July 2009

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

Around 35% higher core clock speed: 675 MHz vs 500 MHz

Core clock speed	675 MHz vs 500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 4200 IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

Name	ATI Radeon HD 4200 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM
PassMark - G2D Mark		134
PassMark - G3D Mark		556
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3353

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 4200 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Tesla
Code name	RS880	G92B
Launch date	1 August 2009	1 July 2009
Place in performance rating	not rated	1157
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	675 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	55 nm
Transistor count	181 million	754 million
Floating-point performance		362.9 gflops
Pipelines		112
Texture fill rate		37.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		120 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		229 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		70.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		2200 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3