The new Intel HD Graphics in the Core ix Arrandale CPUs, offers a similar performance, but the driver support by AMD should be better.

Compared to older onboad graphic chips (e.g., GMA 4500MHD), the HD 4250 is much faster. With a slow V-Series CPU however, only old games like Doom 3 or Quake 4 should be playable. With a fast Phenom II CPU for example less demanding games like Left 4 Dead or Starcraft 2 were playable in low settings and resolutions. The 3D performance is heavily depending on the used processor. Because of pricing it is unclear if any manufacturer will add memory to the chip. Theroretically, dedicated memory chips can be directly added to the chip, making it a dedicated graphics card (called sideport). Because of the missing graphics memory, the performance of the card is a bit lower than of the HD 34x0. The graphics core of the HD 4250 stems from the Mobility Radeon HD 3400 series and is therefore DirectX 10.1 capable. Blu-ray) with a relative low CPU utilization (called Avivo HD). The UVD 2 in the HD 4250 supports the decoding of two video stream and therefore got a full Blu-Ray support. The UVD 2 video engine is able to decode HD videos (H.264 and VC-1 in all stages, MPEG2 only IDCT) and allows the fluent playback of HD videos (e.g. Compared to the HD 4200, the 4250 offers a similar performance, but the power consumption could be a bit better.Ĭompared to the old HD 3200, the 4250 supports DirectX 10.1 and features the UVD2 video decoder. It is based on the HD 3400 graphics core and features the UVD 2 video engine to decode HD videos. The AMD ATI Radeon HD 4250 (sometimes also ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 called) is an onboard (shared Memory) graphics chip in the RS880M chipset.

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