ATI Radeon VE vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1531
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data0.03
ArchitectureGen. 4.5 (2008)Rage 6 (2000−2007)
GPU code nameGL40Rage 6
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 October 2008 (16 years ago)19 February 2001 (23 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 MHz183 MHz
Number of transistorsno data30 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data23 Watt
Texture fill rateno data0.55
ROPsno data1
TMUsno data3

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 dataAGP 4x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 dataDDR
Maximum RAM amountno data32 MB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data183 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data2.928 GB/s
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 data1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX107.0
OpenGLno data1.3
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2008 19 February 2001
Chip lithography 65 nm 180 nm

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M has an age advantage of 7 years, and a 176.9% more advanced lithography process.

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

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


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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500M
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ATI Radeon VE
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