ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP vs GeForce GTX 690

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking362not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.45no data
Power efficiency3.30no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameGK104RS880
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date3 May 2012 (12 years ago)10 September 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$999 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 cores307240
Core clock speed915 MHz498 MHz
Boost clock speed1019 MHzno data
Number of transistors3,540 million181 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Wattno data
Texture fill rate130.41.992
Floating-point processing power3.13 TFLOPS0.03984 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs1284

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 supportPCI Express 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length279 mmno data
Height4.376" (11.1 cm)no data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinNone
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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5System Shared
Memory bus width512-bit (256-bit per GPU)System Shared
Memory clock speed1502 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth384 GB/sno 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 ConnectorsTwo Dual Link DVI-I. One Dual link DVI-D. One Mini-Displayport 1.2No outputs
Multi monitor support4 displaysno data
HDMIYes (via dongle)-
HDCP+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data
Audio input for HDMIInternalno data

Supported technologies

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

3D Blu-Ray+-
3D Gaming+-
3D Vision Live+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model5.14.1
OpenGL4.23.3
OpenCL1.21.0
Vulkan1.1.126N/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 May 2012 10 September 2009
Chip lithography 28 nm 55 nm

GTX 690 has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 96.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 690 and Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP. We've got no test results to judge.


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