Matrox G450 vs ATI Radeon HD 4200

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1336not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)G400 (1999−2002)
GPU code nameRS880Condor
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 August 2009 (15 years ago)1 January 2001 (23 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 cores40no data
Core clock speed500 MHz125 MHz
Number of transistors181 million10 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm180 nm
Texture fill rate2.0000.25
Floating-point processing power0.04 TFLOPSno data
ROPs42
TMUs42

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 x16PCI
Lengthno data150 mm
WidthIGP1-slot
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 SharedDDR
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared32 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared332 MBps
Memory bandwidthno data2.656 GB/s
Shared memory+no 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)6.0
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.3None
OpenCL1.0None
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 August 2009 1 January 2001
Chip lithography 55 nm 180 nm

ATI HD 4200 has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 227.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4200 and Matrox G450. We've got no test results to judge.


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