ATI Radeon HD 4290 IGP vs ATI HD 3650

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1260not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.41no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameRV635RS880
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date20 January 2008 (16 years ago)1 March 2010 (14 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 cores12040
Core clock speed725 MHz498 MHz
Number of transistors378 million181 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Wattno data
Texture fill rate5.8001.992
Floating-point processing power0.174 TFLOPS0.03984 TFLOPS
ROPs44
TMUs84

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount256 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed800 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth25.6 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.14.1
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCLN/A1.0
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 January 2008 1 March 2010

ATI HD 4290 IGP has an age advantage of 2 years.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3650 and Radeon HD 4290 IGP. We've got no test results to judge.


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