Your Graphics Research
Your Graphics Research
| Recommended System Requirements | ||
|---|---|---|
| Game | Intel G33 Express Chipset | Radeon HD 4290 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 6790% | 4297% |
| Assassins Creed: Valhalla | 6202% | 3921% |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War | 5998% | 3791% |
| Grand Theft Auto VI | 9595% | 6087% |
| FIFA 21 | 3376% | 2118% |
| Genshin Impact | 6790% | 4297% |
| Far Cry 6 | 9870% | 6262% |
| Hitman 3 | 8863% | 5620% |
| Watch Dogs Legion | 6546% | 4141% |
| World of Warcraft: Shadowlands | 9778% | 6204% |
In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon HD 4290 are significantly better than the Intel G33 Express Chipset.
The Radeon HD 4290 was released over a year more recently than the G33 Express Chipset, and so the Radeon HD 4290 is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the G33 Express Chipset.
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 G33 Express Chipset 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 G33 Express Chipset does not have an entry, so the two GPUs cannot be reliably compared in this area.
The G33 Express Chipset requires 19 Watts to run but there is no entry for the Radeon HD 4290.
| Core Speed | 400 MHz | vs |  | 700 MHz | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boost Clock | - | vs | - | ||
| Architecture | Bearlake-B | RS880D | |||
| OC Potential | - | vs |
| None | |
| Driver Support | - | vs | - | ||
| Release Date | 01 Jun 2007 | vs | | 01 Mar 2010 | |
| GPU Link | GD Link | GD Link | |||
| Approved | | | |||
| Comparison | |||||
| Memory | N/A | vs | | N/A | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memory Speed | - | vs | - | ||
| Memory Bus | - | vs | | 32 Bit | |
| Memory Type | DDR3 | | vs | DDR2 | |
| Memory Bandwidth | - | vs | - | ||
| L2 Cache | - | vs | - | ||
| Delta Color Compression | no | vs | no | ||
| Memory Performance | 0% | |
vs | |
0% |
| Comparison | |||||
| Shader Processing Units | - | vs | | 40 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actual Shader Performance | - | vs | | 1% | |
| Technology | - | vs | | 55nm | |
| Texture Mapping Units | - | vs | | 4 | |
| Texture Rate | - | vs | | 2.8 GTexel/s | |
| Render Output Units | - | vs | | 4 | |
| Pixel Rate | - | vs | | 2.8 GPixel/s | |
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Digital Resolution (WxH) | 1600x900 | | vs | - | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VGA Connections | 1 | | vs | | 1 |
| DVI Connections | 0 | vs | 0 | ||
| HDMI Connections | 0 | vs | 0 | ||
| DisplayPort Connections | - | vs | - | ||
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Power | 19 Watts | - | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recommended PSU | - | - | |||
| DirectX | 9.0c | vs | | 10.1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shader Model | 3.0 | vs | | 4.1 | |
| Open GL | 1.5 | vs | | 3.2 | |
| 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 | Intel G33 Express Chipset comes embedded on the Core 2 Quad/Core 2 Duo/Pentium Dual-Core CPUS and features an Integrated GPU called Intel GMA 3100. Due to its characteristics (e.g. Shared Memory) the performance is very limited but might be enough to play today's games at low settings excluding, however, very demanding games like Metro 2033 or The Witcher II, that are unplayable, even at the lowest settings. | 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. | |||
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| Recommended CPU | - | - | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Possible GPU Upgrades | N/A | N/A | |||
| GPU Variants | - | - | |||