Radeon Instinct MI100 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 ranking1339not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)CDNA 1.0 (2020)
GPU code nameRS880Arcturus
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date1 August 2009 (15 years ago)16 November 2020 (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 cores407680
Core clock speed500 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1502 MHz
Number of transistors181 million50,000 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data300 Watt
Texture fill rate2.000721.0
Floating-point processing power0.04 TFLOPS23.07 TFLOPS
ROPs464
TMUs4480

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 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
WidthIGP2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

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 SharedHBM2
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared32 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared4096 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1200 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1,229 GB/s
Shared memory+-

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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)N/A
Shader Model4.1N/A
OpenGL3.3N/A
OpenCL1.02.1
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 August 2009 16 November 2020
Chip lithography 55 nm 7 nm

Instinct MI100 has an age advantage of 11 years, and a 685.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4200 and Radeon Instinct MI100. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 4200 is a desktop card while Radeon Instinct MI100 is a workstation one.


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ATI Radeon HD 4200
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