GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4200

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1403not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameRS880G92
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 August 2009 (16 years ago)31 January 2008 (17 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 cores4064
Core clock speed500 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors181 million754 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data105 Watt
Texture fill rate2.00016.00
Floating-point processing power0.04 TFLOPS0.16 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs432
L2 Cacheno data64 KB

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 1.0 x16MXM-HE
WidthIGPMXM Module
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 typeSystem SharedGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared512 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared256 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared799 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data51.14 GB/s
Shared memory+-

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API and SDK support

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.14.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.01.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 August 2009 31 January 2008
Chip lithography 55 nm 65 nm

ATI HD 4200 has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 18.2% more advanced lithography process.

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