HD Graphics 4200 vs GeForce 8600 GTS

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1102
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data17.14
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Generation 7.5 (2013)
GPU code nameG84Haswell GT2
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date17 April 2007 (17 years ago)2 September 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 no data

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 cores32160
Core clock speed675 MHz200 MHz
Boost clock speedno data850 MHz
Number of transistors289 million392 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm22 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt4 Watt
Texture fill rate10.8017.00
Floating-point processing power0.0928 TFLOPS0.272 TFLOPS
ROPs82
TMUs1620

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 x16Ring Bus
Length198 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data
SLI options+-

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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount256 MBSystem Shared
Standard memory config per GPU256 MBno data
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth32 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model4.05.1
OpenGL2.14.3
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A+
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 April 2007 2 September 2013
Chip lithography 80 nm 22 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 4 Watt

HD Graphics 4200 has an age advantage of 6 years, a 263.6% more advanced lithography process, and 1400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 8600 GTS and HD Graphics 4200. We've got no test results to judge.


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