NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A vs ATI Radeon HD 4200

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 83% higher core clock speed: 914 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
  • 23.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2593 vs 112
  • 6.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3289 vs 485
  • 6.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3289 vs 485
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 March 2015 vs 10 September 2009
Core clock speed 914 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 2593 vs 112
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3289 vs 485
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3289 vs 485

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4200

  • Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 372 vs 271
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 372 vs 271

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4200

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2593
112
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
271
372
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3289
485
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3289
485
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A ATI Radeon HD 4200
PassMark - G3D Mark 2593 112
PassMark - G2D Mark 271 372
Geekbench - OpenCL 10220
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1973
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1973
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2188
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2188
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3289 485
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3289 485

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A ATI Radeon HD 4200

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell RV6xx
Code name GM107 RV620
Launch date 13 March 2015 10 September 2009
Place in performance rating 907 904
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 993 MHz
Core clock speed 914 MHz 500 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,271 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 640 40
Texture fill rate 39.72 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt
Transistor count 1,870 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0)

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 64 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5
Shared memory yes

Technologies

HDCP support
PCI-E 2.0