Radeon RX 580X Mobile vs ATI 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)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameRS880Polaris 20
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date1 August 2009 (15 years ago)11 April 2018 (6 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 cores402304
Core clock speed500 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1077 MHz
Number of transistors181 million5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data100 Watt
Texture fill rate2.000155.1
Floating-point processing power0.04 TFLOPS4.963 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs4144

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16MXM-B (3.0)
WidthIGPno 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 typeSystem SharedGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared8 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared256 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data256.0 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)12 (12_0)
Shader Model4.16.4
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.02.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 August 2009 11 April 2018
Chip lithography 55 nm 14 nm

RX 580X Mobile has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 292.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4200 and Radeon RX 580X Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 4200 is a desktop card while Radeon RX 580X Mobile is a notebook one.


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ATI Radeon HD 4200
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