NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE vs ATI Radeon HD 4200

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE and ATI Radeon HD 4200 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 47% higher core clock speed: 736 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 7.2x more pipelines: 288 vs 40
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
  • 17.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1914 vs 112
  • Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 423 vs 372
  • 6.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3356 vs 485
  • 6.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3356 vs 485
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 20 February 2012 vs 10 September 2009
Core clock speed 736 MHz vs 500 MHz
Pipelines 288 vs 40
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1914 vs 112
PassMark - G2D Mark 423 vs 372
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356 vs 485
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356 vs 485

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4200

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1914
112
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
423
372
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3356
485
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3356
485
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE ATI Radeon HD 4200
PassMark - G3D Mark 1914 112
PassMark - G2D Mark 423 372
Geekbench - OpenCL 6235
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 18.456
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 618.773
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.693
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 27.232
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 50.114
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2970
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3114
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356 485
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2970
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3114
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356 485
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 SE ATI Radeon HD 4200

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 RV6xx
Code name GF114 RV620
Launch date 20 February 2012 10 September 2009
Launch price (MSRP) $89.99
Place in performance rating 964 900
Price now $89.99
Type Desktop Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 28.95

Technical info

Core clock speed 736 MHz 500 MHz
Floating-point performance 847.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 288 40
Texture fill rate 35.33 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt
Transistor count 1,950 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 210 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 91.87 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 3828 MHz
Memory type GDDR5
Shared memory yes

Technologies

HDCP support
PCI-E 2.0