GeForce RTX 4090 Ti vs Radeon HD 4250

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Primary details

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRV6xx (2007−2010)Ada Lovelace
GPU code nameRS880MAD102
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 May 2010 (14 years ago)2023 (1 year ago)
Current price$199 $1635

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4018176
Core clock speed500 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data2565 MHz
Number of transistors181 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt600 Watt
Texture fill rate2.3761,457
Floating-point performance47.52 gflopsno data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 4250 and GeForce RTX 4090 Ti compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data336 mm
Widthno data3-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 16-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 typeDDR2GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount512 MB24 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed792 MHz24 GB/s
Memory bandwidth6.336 GB/s1,152 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMIno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.16.7
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDAno data8.9

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 24 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 600 Watt

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4250 and GeForce RTX 4090 Ti. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 4250 is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 4090 Ti is a desktop one.


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