Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M vs GeForce 9400

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Gen. 4.5 (2008)
GPU code nameC79GL40
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date17 April 2007 (17 years ago)1 October 2008 (16 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 cores1610
Core clock speed450 MHz400 MHz
Number of transistors314 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology65 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)40 Wattno data
Texture fill rate3.600no data
Floating-point processing power0.0352 TFLOPSno data
ROPs4no data
TMUs8no 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).

InterfacePCIno data
WidthIGPno 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 typeSystem Sharedno data
Maximum RAM amountSystem Sharedno data
Memory bus widthSystem Sharedno data
Memory clock speedSystem Sharedno data
Shared memoryno data+

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Videono data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)10
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.3no data
OpenCLN/Ano data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 April 2007 1 October 2008

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9400 and Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 9400 is a desktop card while Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 9400
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