ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP vs GeForce Go 7800 GTX

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1219not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.58no data
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameG70RS880
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date29 September 2005 (19 years ago)10 September 2009 (15 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 cores3240
Core clock speed440 MHz498 MHz
Boost clock speed440 MHzno data
Number of transistors302 million181 million
Manufacturing process technology110 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Wattno data
Texture fill rate10.561.992
Floating-point processing powerno data0.03984 TFLOPS
ROPs244
TMUs244

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed550 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth35.2 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 outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model3.04.1
OpenGL2.13.3
OpenCLN/A1.0
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 September 2005 10 September 2009
Chip lithography 110 nm 55 nm

ATI Mobility HD 4200 IGP has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

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