NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP 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 560M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 56% higher core clock speed: 775 MHz vs 498 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • 14x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1274 vs 91
  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 266 vs 260
  • 6.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3341 vs 511
  • 6.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3341 vs 511
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 30 May 2011 vs 10 September 2009
Core clock speed 775 MHz vs 498 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1274 vs 91
PassMark - G2D Mark 266 vs 260
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3341 vs 511
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3341 vs 511

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1274
91
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
266
260
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3341
511
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3341
511
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark 1274 91
PassMark - G2D Mark 266 260
Geekbench - OpenCL 4769
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 13.598
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 404.618
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.227
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 25.333
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 44.123
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1857
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3275
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3341 511
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1857
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3275
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3341 511
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 TeraScale
Code name GF116 RS880
Launch date 30 May 2011 10 September 2009
Place in performance rating 1163 1165
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 775 MHz 498 MHz
CUDA cores 192
Floating-point performance 595.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 192
Texture fill rate 24.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt
Transistor count 1,170 million 181 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large
SLI options 2-way
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12 API 10.1
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz
Memory type GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus