Radeon HD 6390 vs ATI HD 4200

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1408not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameRS880Redwood
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 August 2009 (16 years ago)4 July 2011 (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 cores40320
Core clock speed500 MHz550 MHz
Number of transistors181 million627 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data39 Watt
Texture fill rate2.0008.800
Floating-point processing power0.04 TFLOPS0.352 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs416
L1 Cacheno data32 KB
L2 Cacheno data256 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 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data165 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 SharedDDR2
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared1 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data16 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

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 outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API and SDK support

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model4.15.0
OpenGL3.34.4
OpenCL1.01.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 August 2009 4 July 2011
Chip lithography 55 nm 40 nm

HD 6390 has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 37.5% more advanced lithography process.

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