GMA X3100 vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M

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
ArchitectureGen. 4.5 (2008)Generation 4.0 (2006−2007)
GPU code nameGL40Broadwater
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 October 2008 (16 years ago)9 May 2007 (17 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 cores10no data
Core clock speed400 MHz500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology65 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data13 Watt
Texture fill rateno data4.000
ROPsno data1
TMUsno data8

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 1.0 x16
Widthno dataIGP

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 typeno dataSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus widthno dataSystem Shared
Memory clock speedno dataSystem Shared
Shared memory+no 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 Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX109.0c
Shader Modelno data3.0
OpenGLno data2.0
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2008 9 May 2007
Chip lithography 65 nm 90 nm

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 38.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M and GMA X3100. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M is a notebook card while GMA X3100 is a desktop one.


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M
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