NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M vs ATI Radeon HD 4200

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 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 860M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 59% higher core clock speed: 797 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 16x more pipelines: 640 vs 40
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
  • 27x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3026 vs 112
  • 6.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3340 vs 485
  • 6.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3340 vs 485
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 10 March 2014 vs 10 September 2009
Core clock speed 797 MHz vs 500 MHz
Pipelines 640 vs 40
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3026 vs 112
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3340 vs 485
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3340 vs 485

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4200

  • Around 65% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 372 vs 225
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 372 vs 225

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4200

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3026
112
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
225
372
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3340
485
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3340
485
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M ATI Radeon HD 4200
PassMark - G3D Mark 3026 112
PassMark - G2D Mark 225 372
Geekbench - OpenCL 10018
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 22.828
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 210.585
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.416
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 28.662
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 162.83
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4938
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3340 485
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4938
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3340 485
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1151

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M ATI Radeon HD 4200

Essentials

Architecture Kepler RV6xx
Code name GK104 RV620
Launch date 10 March 2014 10 September 2009
Place in performance rating 899 901
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 915 MHz
Core clock speed 797 MHz 500 MHz
CUDA cores 1152 or 640
Floating-point performance 1,389 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 640 40
Texture fill rate 43.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt
Transistor count 3,540 million

Video outputs and ports

7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support Up to 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.1
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 80.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory type GDDR5
Shared memory 0 yes
Standard memory configuration GDDR5

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
Adaptive VSync
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
TXAA
HDCP support
PCI-E 2.0