Your Graphics Research
Your Graphics Research
| Recommended System Requirements | ||
|---|---|---|
| Game | Radeon HD 4290 | HD i3 2100T |
| Hitman 3 | 5620% | 6209% |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 4297% | 4750% |
| Assassins Creed: Valhalla | 3921% | 4336% |
| FIFA 21 | 2118% | 2346% |
| Grand Theft Auto VI | 6087% | 6724% |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War | 3791% | 4192% |
| Resident Evil 8 | 4297% | 4750% |
| Genshin Impact | 4297% | 4750% |
| Far Cry 6 | 6262% | 6917% |
| The Medium | 5386% | 5952% |
In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon HD 4290 are very slightly better than the Intel HD i3 2100T.
The HD i3 2100T was released over a year more recently than the Radeon HD 4290, and so the HD i3 2100T is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the Radeon HD 4290.
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 has 128 MB video memory, but the HD i3 2100T does not have an entry, so the two GPUs cannot be reliably compared in this area.
The Radeon HD 4290 has 40 Shader Processing Units but the HD i3 2100T does not have an entry, so the two GPUs cannot be reliably compared in this area.
The HD i3 2100T requires 35 Watts to run but there is no entry for the Radeon HD 4290.
| Core Speed | 700 MHz |  | vs | 650 MHz | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boost Clock | - | vs | - | ||
| Architecture | RS880D | Sandy Bridge | |||
| OC Potential | None | vs | None | ||
| Driver Support | - | vs | - | ||
| Release Date | 01 Mar 2010 | vs |  | 30 Mar 2011 | |
| GPU Link | GD Link | GD Link | |||
| Approved | | | |||
| Comparison | |||||
| Memory | N/A | | vs | N/A | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memory Speed | - | vs | | 667 MHz | |
| Memory Bus | 32 Bit | vs | | 64 Bit | |
| Memory Type | DDR2 | vs | | DDR3 | |
| Memory Bandwidth | - | vs | | 10.7GB/sec | |
| L2 Cache | - | vs | - | ||
| Delta Color Compression | no | vs | no | ||
| Memory Performance | 0% | |
vs | |
0% |
| Comparison | |||||
| Shader Processing Units | 40 | | vs | - | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | | 2560x1600 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VGA Connections | 1 | | vs | | 1 |
| DVI Connections | 0 | vs | 0 | ||
| HDMI Connections | 0 | vs | 0 | ||
| DisplayPort Connections | - | vs | - | ||
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Power | - | 35 Watts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recommended PSU | - | - | |||
| DirectX | 10.1 | | vs | | 10.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shader Model | 4.1 | | vs | | 4.1 |
| Open GL | 3.2 | | vs | 3.1 | |
| Open CL | - | vs | - | ||
| Notebook GPU | no | no | |||
| SLI/Crossfire | no | vs | no | ||
| Dedicated | no | vs | no | ||
| Comparison | |||||
| Recommended Processor | - | - | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recommended RAM | - | - | |||
| Maximum Recommended Gaming Resolution | - | - | |||
| Performance Value |  | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | HD i3 2100T is a specific version of the Intel HD 2000 Graphics that comes with the CPU 'Core i3-2100T 2.5GHz'. It uses the CPU's Level 3 Cache (up to 3 MB, in this case) + part of the RAM installed on the system up to a maximum of approximately 1.7GB for Vista/7 and 1 GB for XP. The Memory controller supports DDR3-1066 and DDR3-1333 and the Dynamic Frequency Technology of the processor can over-clock the graphics card clock from 650MHz to 1100MHz. Nevertheless it's still an integrated GPU with shared memory so its performance is very limited. Still, demanding games like Crysis 2 should still run on the lowest settings. | |||
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| Recommended CPU | - | - | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Possible GPU Upgrades | N/A | N/A | |||
| GPU Variants | - | - | |||