ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs ATI Radeon HD 4250 IGP

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and ATI Radeon HD 4250 IGP 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 5870 Eyefinity 6

ATI Radeon HD 4250 IGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Around 71% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 498 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm

Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 498 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6	ATI Radeon HD 4250 IGP
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	TeraScale
Code name	Cypress	RS880
Launch date	11 March 2010	1 March 2010
Launch price (MSRP)	$479
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	850 MHz	498 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,720.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	1600
Texture fill rate	68.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	228 Watt
Transistor count	2,154 million	181 million
Boost clock speed		560 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	6x mini-DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	279 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	153.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5