GMA X4500 vs GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

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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
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Generation 5.0 (2008)
GPU code nameGP108Eaglelake
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date12 March 2018 (6 years ago)1 June 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$79 no data

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 cores38480
Core clock speed1152 MHz533 MHz
Boost clock speed1379 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,800 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology14 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Watt13 Watt
Texture fill rate33.102.132
Floating-point processing power1.059 TFLOPSno data
ROPs164
TMUs244

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x4PCIe 1.0 x16
Length145 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeDDR4System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1050 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth16.8 GB/sno 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 HDMINo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)10.0
Shader Model6.44.0
OpenGL4.62.0
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA6.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 March 2018 1 June 2008
Chip lithography 14 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 13 Watt

GT 1030 DDR4 has an age advantage of 9 years, and a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.

GMA X4500, on the other hand, has 53.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and GMA X4500. We've got no test results to judge.


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