ATI Radeon HD 4250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGT2xx (2009−2012)RV6xx (2007−2010)
GPU code nameG96CRS880M
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date21 January 2010 (14 years old)1 May 2010 (13 years old)
Current price$310 $199

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2440
Core clock speed500 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors314 million181 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)14 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rate8.0002.376
Floating-point performance80 gflops47.52 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce GT 320M and Radeon HD 4250 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceMXM-IIPCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

Memory

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 typeDDR3DDR2
Maximum RAM amount1 GB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed790 MHz792 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s6.336 GB/s
Shared memory-+

Video outputs and ports

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 outputs1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API support

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.04.1
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

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


Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

GT 320M 105
ATI HD 4250 122
+16.2%

Radeon HD 4250 outperforms GeForce GT 320M by 16% in Passmark.

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

GT 320M 1205
+431%
ATI HD 4250 227

GeForce GT 320M outperforms Radeon HD 4250 by 431% in 3DMark Vantage Performance.

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 21 January 2010 1 May 2010
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 14 Watt 25 Watt

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 320M and Radeon HD 4250. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M
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