Your Graphics Research
Your Graphics Research
| Recommended System Requirements | ||
|---|---|---|
| Game | Radeon HD 4290 | FireGL 8800 |
| Hitman 3 | 5620% | 7637% |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 4297% | 5847% |
| Assassins Creed: Valhalla | 3921% | 5339% |
| FIFA 21 | 2118% | 2900% |
| Grand Theft Auto VI | 6087% | 8268% |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War | 3791% | 5163% |
| Resident Evil 8 | 4297% | 5847% |
| Genshin Impact | 4297% | 5847% |
| Far Cry 6 | 6262% | 8505% |
| The Medium | 5386% | 7321% |
In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon HD 4290 are significantly better than the AMD FireGL 8800.
The Radeon HD 4290 was released over three years more recently than the FireGL 8800, and so the Radeon HD 4290 is likely to have far better driver support, meaning it will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the FireGL 8800 when running the latest games.
Both GPUs exhibit very poor performance, so rather than upgrading from one to the other you should consider looking at more powerful GPUs. Neither of these will be able to run the latest games in any playable way.
The Radeon HD 4290 and the FireGL 8800 have the same amount of video memory, but are likely to provide slightly different experiences when displaying game textures at high resolutions.
The FireGL 8800 has 2.3 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the Radeon HD 4290, which means that the memory performance of the FireGL 8800 is marginally better than the Radeon HD 4290.
The Radeon HD 4290 has 40 Shader Processing Units and the FireGL 8800 has 2. However, the actual shader performance of the Radeon HD 4290 is 18 and the actual shader performance of the FireGL 8800 is 0. The Radeon HD 4290 having 18 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the Radeon HD 4290 delivers a marginally smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the FireGL 8800.
We would recommend a PSU with at least 300 Watts for the FireGL 8800, but we do not have a recommended PSU wattage for the Radeon HD 4290.
| Core Speed | 700 MHz |  | vs | 300 MHz | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boost Clock | - | vs | - | ||
| Architecture | RS880D | - | |||
| OC Potential | None |
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vs | - | |
| Driver Support | - | vs | - | ||
| Release Date | 01 Mar 2010 | | vs | 01 Jan 2001 | |
| GPU Link | GD Link | GD Link | |||
| Approved | | | |||
| Comparison | |||||
| Memory | N/A | | vs | | 128 MB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memory Speed | - | vs | | 290 MHz | |
| Memory Bus | 32 Bit | vs | | 64 Bit | |
| Memory Type | DDR2 | | vs | DDR | |
| Memory Bandwidth | - | vs | | 2.3GB/sec | |
| L2 Cache | - | vs | - | ||
| Delta Color Compression | no | vs | no | ||
| Memory Performance | 0% | |
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0% |
| Comparison | |||||
| Shader Processing Units | 40 | | vs | 2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actual Shader Performance | 1% | | vs | - | |
| Technology | 55nm | | vs | - | |
| Texture Mapping Units | 4 | | vs | - | |
| Texture Rate | 2.8 GTexel/s | | vs | - | |
| Render Output Units | 4 | | vs | - | |
| Pixel Rate | 2.8 GPixel/s | | vs | - | |
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Digital Resolution (WxH) | - | vs | | 2048x1536 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VGA Connections | 1 | | vs | - | |
| DVI Connections | 0 | vs | - | ||
| HDMI Connections | 0 | vs | - | ||
| DisplayPort Connections | - | vs | - | ||
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Power | - | - | |||
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| Recommended PSU | - | 300 Watts | |||
| DirectX | 10.1 | | vs | 8.1 | |
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| Shader Model | 4.1 | | vs | 1.4 | |
| Open GL | 3.2 | | vs | 1.4 | |
| Open CL | - | vs | - | ||
| Notebook GPU | no | no | |||
| SLI/Crossfire | no | vs | no | ||
| Dedicated | no | vs | | yes | |
| Comparison | |||||
| Recommended Processor | - | - | |||
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| Recommended RAM | - | - | |||
| Maximum Recommended Gaming Resolution | - | - | |||
| Performance Value |  | ||||
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| Mini Review | Radeon HD 4290 (IGP) is an integrated GPU on the AMD 890GX Chipset. It's based on the RS880D Core and offers 40 Shader Processing Units, 4 TMUs and 4 ROPs a 32-bit memory interface of either DDR2 (more commonly) or DDR3. The central unit runs, commonly, at up to 700MHz and the memory clock's operating speed depends on the system RAM's speed. Radeon HD 4290's performance depends on the users system configuration which will define the operating memory clock's speed and on the desktop manufacturer which decides its central unit's speed. Therefore, Radeon HD 4290, even if paired with DDR3 won't offer similar performance to the dedicated Radeon HD 4350. DirectX 11 games aren't supported. | The ATI FireGL range of video cards, renamed to FirePro 3D in late 2008, is the series specifically for CAD (Computer Aided Design) and DCC (Digital Content Creation) software, usually found in workstations. The FireGL line is designed for multimedia content creation programs, such as 3DS Max, and mechanical engineering design software such as Solidworks, whereas Radeon counterparts are suited towards video games. FireGL drivers were built with maximum image quality and pixel precision, with CAD specific functionalities such as the recently introduced AutoDetection Technology to tune the parameters inside the driver to achieve maximum performance for predefined list of software. However, because the drivers are also based on the Catalyst drivers made for the Radeon line, it makes them suitable for gaming, at the expense of probable compatibility issues with the very latest games due to the age of the drivers, with FireGL cards in theory pushing more data than their Radeon gaming counterparts. | |||
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| Recommended CPU | - | - | |||
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| Possible GPU Upgrades | N/A | N/A | |||
| GPU Variants | - | - | |||