GeForce4 4200 Go vs Radeon HD 6830M

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1518
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)no data
GPU code nameGranvilleNV28M
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 January 2011 (13 years ago)15 November 2002 (22 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 cores8006
Core clock speed575 MHz2 MHz
Boost clock speedno data200 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)39 Wattno data
Texture fill rate23.00no data
Floating-point processing power0.92 TFLOPSno data
ROPs16no data
TMUs40no 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).

Laptop sizelargemedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no 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 typeDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB128 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz200 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sno 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.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)DDR
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.4no data
OpenCL1.2no data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2011 15 November 2002
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 150 nm

HD 6830M has an age advantage of 8 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 275% more advanced lithography process.

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