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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

ATI Radeon HD 4200

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
27.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3048 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	3048 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

3048

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	3048	112
PassMark - G2D Mark	225	372
Geekbench - OpenCL	10394
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)	3.427
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	900	903
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