ATI Radeon HD 4200 IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce4 Go 4200

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 4200 IGP and NVIDIA GeForce4 Go 4200 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

ATI Radeon HD 4200 IGP

NVIDIA GeForce4 Go 4200

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4200 IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 8 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 200 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 150 nm

Launch date	1 August 2009 vs 14 November 2002
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 150 nm

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 4200 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce4 Go 4200
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Kelvin
Code name	RS880	NV28 A1
Launch date	1 August 2009	14 November 2002
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	150 nm
Transistor count	181 million	36 million
Texture fill rate		1.6 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
API support
DirectX	10.1	8.1
OpenGL	3.3	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		64 MB
Memory bandwidth		3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		400 MHz
Memory type		DDR