ATI Rage XL vs ATI Radeon HD 4250

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1372not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.88no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Rage 3 (1997−1998)
GPU code nameRV620Rage 3
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date25 February 2009 (16 years ago)1 August 1998 (27 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 cores40no data
Core clock speed594 MHz125 MHz
Number of transistors181 million8 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm350 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Wattno data
Texture fill rate2.3760.13
Floating-point processing power0.04752 TFLOPSno data
ROPs41
TMUs41
L2 Cache64 KBno 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 2.0 x16PCI
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDR2SDR
Maximum RAM amount512 MB8 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed396 MHz83 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.336 GB/s664.0 MB/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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)6.0
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.31.1
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 February 2009 1 August 1998
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 8 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 350 nm

ATI HD 4250 has an age advantage of 10 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 536.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4250 and Rage XL. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 4250 is a desktop graphics card while Rage XL is a workstation one.

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