ATI Radeon HD 4225 vs GeForce 8400M G

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1421not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.03no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)RV6xx (2008−2010)
GPU code nameG86RS880M
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date9 May 2007 (17 years ago)1 May 2010 (14 years ago)

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 cores840
Core clock speed400 MHz380 MHz
Number of transistors210 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology80 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10 Wattno data
Texture fill rate3.200no data
Floating-point processing power0.0128 TFLOPSno data
ROPs4no data
TMUs8no data

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16no data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount256 MB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bitno data
Memory clock speed400 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/sno 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 ConnectorsNo outputsno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)10.1
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.3no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 May 2007 1 May 2010
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 512 MB
Chip lithography 80 nm 55 nm

ATI HD 4225 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 45.5% more advanced lithography process.

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NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G
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