Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD vs GeForce GTX 950

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking374not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation8.51no data
Power efficiency10.71no data
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)Gen. 4.5 (2008)
GPU code nameGM206Montevina
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date20 August 2015 (9 years ago)1 October 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$159 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores76810
Core clock speed1024 MHz533 MHz
Boost clock speed1188 MHzno data
Number of transistors2,940 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)90 Wattno data
Texture fill rate57.02no data
Floating-point processing power1.825 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs48no 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).

Bus supportPCI Express 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16no data
Length202 mmno data
Height4.376" (11.1 cm)no data
Width2-slotno data
Recommended system power (PSU)350 Wattno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data
SLI options+-

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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount2 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed6.6 GB/sno data
Memory bandwidth105.6 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

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 ConnectorsDual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2no data
Multi monitor support4 displaysno data
HDMI+-
HDCP+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data
G-SYNC support+-
Audio input for HDMIInternalno data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

GameStream+-
GeForce ShadowPlay+-
GPU Boost2.0no data
GameWorks+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)10
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.5no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.1.126-
CUDA+-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

GTX 950 37454
+25730%
Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD 145

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 August 2015 1 October 2008
Chip lithography 28 nm 65 nm

GTX 950 has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 132.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 950 and Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 950 is a desktop card while Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD
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