Radeon RX Vega 2 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)Vega (2017−2020)
GPU code nameRS880Vega Raven Ridge
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date1 August 2009 (15 years ago)7 January 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 cores40128
Core clock speed500 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1100 MHz
Number of transistors181 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology55 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rate2.000no data
Floating-point processing power0.04 TFLOPSno data
ROPs4no data
TMUs4no data

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 x16no data
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 Sharedno data
Maximum RAM amountSystem Sharedno data
Memory bus widthSystem Sharedno data
Memory clock speedSystem Sharedno data
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 data

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12_1
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.3no data
OpenCL1.0no data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 August 2009 7 January 2018
Chip lithography 55 nm 12 nm

RX Vega 2 has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 358.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4200 and Radeon RX Vega 2. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 4200 is a desktop card while Radeon RX Vega 2 is a notebook one.


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ATI Radeon HD 4200
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