ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 5 Arrandale (2010)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameGMA HDRS880
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date10 January 2010 (14 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 cores1240
Core clock speed500 MHz498 MHz
Number of transistorsno data181 million
Manufacturing process technology45 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Wattno data
Texture fill rateno data1.992
Floating-point processing powerno data0.03984 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data4

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeno dataSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus widthno dataSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX1010.1 (10_1)
Shader Modelno data4.1
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.0
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 January 2010 10 September 2009
Chip lithography 45 nm 55 nm

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics has an age advantage of 4 months, and a 22.2% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics and Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP. We've got no test results to judge.


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