ATI Radeon HD 4290 IGP vs GeForce GTX 1050

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking389not rated
Place by popularity15not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation11.11no data
Power efficiency11.93no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameGP107RS880
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date25 October 2016 (8 years ago)1 March 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$109 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores64040
Core clock speed1290 MHz498 MHz
Boost clock speed1392 MHzno data
Number of transistors3,300 million181 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattno data
Maximum GPU temperature97 °Cno data
Texture fill rate58.201.992
Floating-point processing power1.862 TFLOPS0.03984 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs404

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 supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length145 mmno data
Height4.38" (11.1 cm)no data
Width2-slotIGP
Recommended system power (PSU)300 Wattno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data
SLI-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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1752 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth112 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

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 ConnectorsDP 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVINo outputs
Multi monitor support+no data
HDMI+-
HDCP2.2-
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

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

GameStream+-
GPU Boost3.0no data
VR Ready+no data
Ansel+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model6.44.1
OpenGL4.53.3
OpenCL1.21.0
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 October 2016 1 March 2010
Chip lithography 14 nm 55 nm

GTX 1050 has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 292.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1050 and Radeon HD 4290 IGP. We've got no test results to judge.


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