PG506-242 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP
Contents
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Architecture | TeraScale (2005−2013) | Ampere (2020−2025) |
| GPU code name | RS880 | GA100 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Workstation |
| Release date | 10 September 2009 (15 years ago) | 12 April 2021 (4 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 cores | 40 | 3584 |
| Core clock speed | 498 MHz | 930 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | no data | 1440 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 181 million | 54,200 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm | 7 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | no data | 165 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 1.992 | 322.6 |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.03984 TFLOPS | 10.32 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 4 | 96 |
| TMUs | 4 | 224 |
| Tensor Cores | no data | 224 |
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).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Length | no data | 267 mm |
| Width | no data | 2-slot |
| Supplementary power connectors | None | 8-pin EPS |
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 type | System Shared | HBM2 |
| Maximum RAM amount | System Shared | 24 GB |
| Memory bus width | System Shared | 3072 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | System Shared | 1215 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | no data | 933.1 GB/s |
| Shared memory | + | - |
| Resizable BAR | - | + |
Connectivity and outputs
This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.
| Display Connectors | No outputs | No outputs |
API and SDK compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 10.1 (10_1) | N/A |
| Shader Model | 4.1 | N/A |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | N/A |
| OpenCL | 1.0 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | N/A | N/A |
| CUDA | - | 8.0 |
| DLSS | - | + |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 10 September 2009 | 12 April 2021 |
| Chip lithography | 55 nm | 7 nm |
PG506-242 has an age advantage of 11 years, and a 685.7% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP and PG506-242. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 4200 IGP is a notebook graphics card while PG506-242 is a workstation one.
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