ATI Radeon HD 4200 vs FirePro W5000

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	520	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	1.41	no data
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	RV6xx (2007−2010)
GPU code name	Pitcairn	RV620
Market segment	Workstation	Laptop
Release date	7 August 2012 (12 years ago)	10 September 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$599	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	768	40
Core clock speed	825 MHz	500 MHz
Number of transistors	2,800 million	181 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	39.60	2.000
Floating-point processing power	1.267 gflops	0.04 gflops
ROPs	32	4
TMUs	48	4

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support	PCIe 3.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	183 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Form factor	full height / half length	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	no data
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	102.4 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	-	+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort count	2	no data
Dual-link DVI support	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_1)	10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model	5.1	4.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
OpenCL	1.2	1.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	7 August 2012	10 September 2009
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	55 nm

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